A 23 year old Australian man with Asperger syndrome and manic depression pleaded guilty to grooming several underage girls he met on Facebook including offering to pay one to change clothes in front of a webcam, requesting nude photos, and asking about sexual experiences. The judge who sentenced the man to a 15 months suspended sentence said she considered his mental issues and dysfunctional young life along with other factors when deciding on the lenient sentence. The man explained that he discovered Facebook as a fantasy world to escape from an unpleasant life. Among other unpleasant aspects of his life, he purportedly was forced by his family to sleep in a space with a dirt floor under the floorboards of their house. Read more about it at heraldsun.com here:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/true-crime-scene/mentally-ill-facebook-sex-predator-given-lenient-sentence-after-judge-accepts-his-acts-were-an-excape-from-a-grim-reality/story-fnat7dhc-1226475890777
Also, read more about it at au.news.yahoo.com here:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/14875358/internet-groomer-avoids-jail/
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