Walsall man who pretended to be a boy on snapchat to abuse girls put behind bars
A Walsall man posed as a teenage boy online to groom and sexually abuse three young girls.
An investigation carried out by West Midlands Police found that Ruhel Miah, aged 48, pretended to be a 15-year-old boy when he groomed three young girls on the social media platform Snapchat.
Miah, a former warehouse worker, pleaded guilty to 15 counts related to child sexual abuse, inciting a child into sexual activity and sexual communication with a child and was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment at Wolverhampton Crown Court on September 5.
After initial contact with his victims, he began to try to build an emotional connection with them before quickly making the conversation sexual.
Miah either arranged to meet the girls or turned up unannounced where he knew they would be and persuaded them to get into his car. Once alone with them he persuaded them to engage in illegal sexual activity which he recorded. The recordings were recovered from his mobile phone by officers.
Robbie Weber, of the Crown Prosecution Service's organised child sexual abuse unit, said: “Ruhel Miah is a man in his 40s, who posed as a 15-year-old boy on social media to target and groom three vulnerable young girls. He subjected them to terrible sexual abuse both online and in person.
“We would like to recognise the victims in the case and understand these experiences can be difficult to talk about, but once they came forward our prosecutors were able to build a strong case that forced Miah to plead guilty to 15 counts of illegal child sexual activity and has led to him being jailed.
