A shocking case of online grooming and child exploitation has emerged as a former police officer, Lewis Edwards, 24, has been found guilty of grooming 200 girls online and coercing them into taking explicit images of themselves in school uniforms. Edwards, who used fake Snapchat accounts to contact girls aged 10 to 16, refused to appear for his sentencing at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday and Tuesday.
During the trial, it was revealed that Edwards, who was a police constable at the time of most of the offences, was caught with over 4,500 indecent images of children. Following a misconduct hearing, he was subsequently barred from policing.
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