Reed has now been jailed for 21 months. At Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court, he was made the subject of a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and a 1- year requirement to sign the sexual offender register.
Detective Mike Allen, of Project Phoenix within GMP's Tameside district, said: "Reed was communicating with who he thought were two 13-year-old girls, but were in fact adults."He turned the conversation sexual - asking them to perform sexual acts on themselves to satisfy his desires."Reed went as far as arranging to meet these young people at his home, whilst his then partner would have been at work, and 40 miles away in Leeds. "If he had have been communicating with youngsters - he could have committed further, serious offences.
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