A MAN who allegedly had sex with a 14-year-old girl was caught after her shocked mother found sexually explicit messages on her daughter’s social network page.
The mother had no idea that the schoolgirl was sexually active until she accessed the network account and discovered conversations which made clear there had been liaisons with the 40-year-old man.
Nigerian-born Kingsley Omiogate, of Newton Abbot, denies two counts of sexual activity with a child.
Mr Sean Brunton, prosecuting, said the girl was 14 at the time and did not tell anyone about her contact with Omiogate until after her mother confronted her over the messages.
She then made a video-recorded police interview in which she said she had sex with him on two occasions in 2014.
Mr Brunton said: ’The girl’s mother had reason to look at her daughter’s mobile phone and saw she was involved in wholly inappropriate conversations with men in different countries.
’There seem to have been some photographs of herself in some of them. She then looked at her social media account and discovered with growing horror there were conversations with this defendant.
’They appeared to be about the fact they had had sex. She challenged her daughter and was eventually told that she and this defendant had sex on two occasions in July and August 2014.
Mr Brunton said Omiogate was interviewed by police and denied the allegations.