Matthew Scott of Woodville Road, Hartshorne, made friends with a 12-year-old boy using a fake name on social media in May 2022.

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The 40-year-old, who was aged 39 at the time, chatted to the boy over two weeks, and arranged to meet him a shop. Scott then drove the boy back to his own home where the offences took place.

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