A sick convicted paedophile used fake names to get back into online chats, a court has heard. Danny Sivyer, 26, has been sent to prison after breaching a sexual harm prevention order he was made subject to following a sentencing on June 24, 2022.
Sivyer, of East Hill in Tuckingmill, Camborne appeared at Truro Crown Court today (January 30) for sentencing after pleading guilty to the offence. The court heard that on November 8 of last year, Sivyer used alias profile names and dates of birth on social media sites - Telegram, Secret Chat, Random Chat and RandoChat - which he was prohibited from doing by the sexual harm prevention order.
Sivyer has now been jailed for three years and must pay a victim surcharge of £228. A forfeiture and destruction order was also made on the phone seized.
It comes after was sent to prison in 2022 for manipulating a child with learning difficulties into performing sexual acts on camera and sending him nudes. Sivyer had previously admitted to a slew of sexual offences against the 13-year-old female victim, who was said to have had a mental age of roughly eight or nine years old.
The then 23-year-old Sivyer began to groom the girl after meeting her on an anonymous chat room app in October 2021. He told the girl, at first, that he was a 16-year-old boy and encouraged her to use Facetime.
The girl agreed, but quickly realised that Sivyer was not 16, and he confessed he was 23. Sivyer continued speaking to the girl, and the conversations started to get explicitly sexual not long after they started talking.
Chat logs seen by the courts showed Sivyer confessing his affection, and love, for the girl. This, the prosecution said at the time, was accompanied by "frequent" comments about his sexual interest in the girl, including explicit references to sexual acts he wanted to perform on and with her.
Sivyer repeatedly asked for sexual images of the girl, who later told police she was uncomfortable with what she was being asked. The paedophile obtained naked images of her, and as the 'relationship' between the two progressed, the Facetime calls also became explicit.
He also discussed rape fantasies with the child, though the court asserted these did not constitute threats. Sivyer sent videos and pictures of himself masturbating to the girl, sent her pictures of other children engaging in sexual activities, and was found by police to have distributed highly sexual images of her to other like-minded perverts via Telegram.
The girl blocked Sivyer several times on the chat room site, but each time he would make a new account and re-engage her. Another time she told him to stop “forcing” her to do things.
The court heard at the time that Sivyer had "a difficult upbringing" and was "a lonely and isolated man". He was adopted after an “abusive” and “neglectful” first 13 months to his life, and he has several learning difficulties himself.
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