Jasmine Hill was jailed at Truro Crown CourtA woman who posed as a teenage girl to lure young boys into sending her explicit photos of themselves performing sex acts has been jailed.
Jasmine Hill, of no fixed address in Cornwall, set up a fake Facebook account and groomed underage boys via the social media site and others like Snapchat and WhatsApp – enticing them to perform increasingly sexual acts for her.
She was to pose a significant risk of serious harm to children, Truro Crown Court was told.
Hill, 20, had already been convicted of similar offences in 2013 and 2015 but within a matter of months of her earlier court appearance, she carried on targeting teenage boys.
Police carried out a spot-check on her phone in May 2016 to make sure she had not breached a protection order but found she had created an online alias to contact teenage boys.
Hill was sentenced at Truro Crown Court to four-and-a-half years behind bars after admitting inciting a child to perform sexual acts after the court heard she already had convictions for similar offences.
Police discovered Hill had continued to target teenage boys after seizing her phone while she was staying at a bail hostel in Camborne.
Judge Simon Carr said told the court that Hill posed a significant risk of serious harm to children.
Sentencing her on Friday, he said: "You face a series of extremely worrying offences.
"You are still only 20 year old but in 2013 you were convicted as a juvenile of inciting a male child to sexual activity and voyeurism.
"On May 29, 2015, you came before this court for inciting a child to be involved in prostitution or pornography.
"Within a matter of months, you were committing almost identical offences.
"You were the object of a sexual harm prevention order so you set up a false Facebook account.
"You targeted, although not exclusively, a 15-year-old boy. He thought he was communicating with someone who was completely different.
"You were clearly, from the beginning, manipulating and grooming him to perform actions he would never have normally done."
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Prosecuting, Jo Martin said Hill had been banned from contacting children on the internet after her 2015 conviction.
In May 2016, police carried out the spot-check on her phone and found she communications from a made-up person to a number of young men.
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One 15-year-old boy thought he had been exchanging photos with a girl his own age.
Defence barrister Barry Hilliard said Hill had been diagnosed with multiple personality disorders.
He said: "What she did was unpleasant and is clearly wrong. The victim was embarrassed.
"He was doing what he did because he thought it was a girl of similar age for sexual pleasure."
For inciting a child to perform sexual acts, Hill was sentenced to four and half years in a young offenders' institute.
Her suspended sentence for the previous offences was activated for 18 months in prison, to run concurrently.
For the other offences, Hill was handed two six-month jail terms, also to run concurrently.
She was also given a new sexual prevention order.
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