A 25-year-old Cowes man who told a ’13-year-old girl’ that he could ‘teach her naughty things’, before sending photos of his erect penis, has pleaded guilty to a string of sexual offences.
Charlie James Bolland, of Stephenson Road, appeared before the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court this afternoon (Tuesday), where he admitted a number of sexual offences, including attempting to engage in sexual activity with a child, possession of indecent images of Category A, B and C, and possession of extreme pornography depicting intercourse with an animal.
Lauren McConnell, for the Crown Prosecution Service, detailed to the court how, in May 2020, Bolland used the app Kik to message who he thought was a young girl. The account actually belonged to an undercover police officer, who told Bolland – then 19 years old – that she was just 13 years old.
The inappropriate communication continued on Instagram, where Bolland described the decoy’s photos as ‘pretty’. He then went on to talk about kissing, but stated that ‘no one could ever know’.
Bolland continued the sexual conversation by stating that he could teach the girl ‘naughty things’.
Just a month later, Charlie Bolland sent a selfie-type photo alongside 3 photos of his erect penis, asking the ‘teenager’ if she wanted to ‘play with it’. He asked the decoy to send photos of her in her bra.
Police attended Bolland’s property and seized his phone, but Mrs McConnell told the court that delays in downloading phone data and staffing changes within the Police have led to a delay of more than 5 years in bringing the matter to court.
Data downloaded from Bolland’s iPhone revealed a sexual interest in children, as well as indecent images – namely 16x Category A, 11x Category B, 18x Category C and 2 images showing sexual intercourse with an animal.
Magistrates deemed the matter too serious to be dealt with in their court, sending the case up to the Isle of Wight Crown Court for sentencing on 12th December.
Bolland has been given unconditional bail until that time, but is ordered to register as a sex offender with interim notification requirements.
Gross. WHY did it take 5 years?!
Worse still, why has the sick piece of shit been allowed to walk around free for five years endangering our kids. We need the old way of dealing with scum like this back, when the kids parents of relatives used to sort the nonces out. Too many do gooders interfering these days causing namby-pamby punishments
I totally agree. Cut their bollocks off. That way they cannot reoffend and would put a very strong message out to all the nonces.
Wow another sicko gets caught. Castration is the only answer for these freaks. The local prisons are full of these types
5 years what a joke..