Dark Justice - ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Film Moment They Capture would-be Child Abuser

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A vigilante group of ‘pedophile hunters’ in England have filmed the moment they ensnared a would-be child abuser attempting to meet up with a fictitious 13-year-old girl he had been grooming online.

Simon Bagley, 42, was given a 12-month suspended jail sentence by Newcastle Crown Court and placed on the sex offenders’ register for five years.

Members of child safety group Dark Justice posed as Charlotte, 13, and struck up an online relationship with Bagley on social networking site hi5.

A series of text messages were then exchanged in which Bagley asked the girl, “Would you like me to be your first boyfriend?” and “Would you like [me] to take your virginity?"

When asked by those posing as Charlotte if he would be happy to be her boyfriend despite her being “only 13,” Bagley replied: “If it would be fine with you.”

He arranged to meet with her at Times Square in Newcastle and was confronted by members of the group as he dismounted his bicycle. Bagley was then quoted some of the lines he used to groom the girl in his text messages and shown screenshots of what he had sent.

Two men from Dark Justice appear to be present at the confrontation, with Bagley apparently dazed and dumbfounded in front of the camera.

One of them asks: “You’ve come to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex?" The culprit, however, can manage only the confused response of, “Why would I come on my bike?”

Two police officers then arrive on the scene and listen as members of Dark Justice repeat excerpts from his text conversations with Charlotte. Bagley, whose own lawyer labelled him “pathetic and vulnerable,” later claimed he had set up the meeting to warn the girl about the danger of online predators.

Judge Paul Sloan QC said in his sentencing of Bagley: “You wanted pictures of her in her school uniform. You went to meet the girl at Times Square and were shocked when you were confronted by members of Dark Justice.”

“You then told police that you were only there to teach Charlotte about dangers, something I simply don’t accept,” the judge told the court. "If this was more than an attempt then you would be given an immediate custodial sentence.”

Online Vigilantes Catch Pedophile Who Traveled 300 Miles To Have Sex With A Schoolgirl

by Vandita
AnonHQ.com

Roger Lee, 45, who got a 12-year-old pregnant in 1998, is behind bars for 2 years 4 months and put on the sex offenders register indefinitely after he admitted travelling more than 300 miles to try to have sex with a 14-year-old girl. Dark Justice set up a profile on the chat website Badoo and Lee, who used the name ‘ForHire’, soon started chatting openly with ‘Rebecca’, who he thought was a schoolgirl.

Roger Lee

Judge Sean Morris at Newcastle Crown Court observed:

“You entered into a conversation with them on the Internet and they pretended the female was 14 and you went for it. You arranged to come to Newcastle from Basingstoke to have sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old child. That is extremely serious. There was in fact no child involved at all, which limits the category into which your offending falls. That will be quite difficult for some people to understand and I don’t blame them. I’m firmly of the view that you are a dangerous individual to young children.”

Prosecutor Tim Gittins said:

“These men, who describe themselves as undercover journalists, worked together in order to set up a sting operation to identify and catch pedophiles. They set up a false female profile on Internet website Badoo. It is meant for over 18s but once he contacted her she indicated she was only 14. He stated he liked young girls and had previously had a relationship with a female aged 12. The messages continued over several days and began to become sexually explicit, at the defendant’s instigation and he sent a picture of his penis. She then said her mum was going away on October 8 and he couldn’t get up here fast enough.”


Lee arranged to meet Rebecca at the Millenium Bridge at 9 am on October 9, 2014 where he was confronted by two men. When he realized that the game was over, he immediately fled the scene. After running off, Lee sent a text message saying he was going to kill himself before being arrested on the A1 heading south.

The two men behind Dark Justice were at the sentencing hearing to see Lee sent to prison. One of the men later said:

“Every day we were picking up the paper and it is pedophile, pedophile, pedophile. We want to prevent this sort of thing from happening, see a change in the law so that Internet users have to identify themselves by credit card, something has to happen. This sentence shows what we do works. We continue to do it. The police reaction to what we are doing has been fine. They don’t exactly say “get on with it” but they take us seriously. We don’t want anyone to get hurt by what we do, we just want to protect people.”

Great job, guys. One pedophile off the streets for awhile, at least, and no-one got hurt.