A “high-risk” child sex predator who targeted young girls online has been jailed for more than seven years after he admitted to more than 40 child offences.
Kasey Fitton, 20, of no fixed abode, was described as a dangerous “manipulative groomer” by Judge Sophie McKone at Bradford Crown Court on Monday, where he plead guilty to a catalogue of offences committed between May 2024 and August 2025.
In a statement read to court, a mother of one victim said Fitton was a “predator” who preyed on “vulnerability and innocence”.
After sentencing, police said investigations continued and urged anyone who had interacted with Snapchat accounts Kaseyfitton23, Kaseyfitton24 and MyCroft110 to come forward.
Fitton’s charges included allegations of sexual activity with a child, causing a child to watch a sexual act, attempting to sexually communicate with a child, making and distributing indecent images, possessing prohibited images of children and possessing extreme pornographic images.
Fitton, who was aged 18 and 19 at the time of his offending, was uncovered after investigations by West Yorkshire Police, West Mercia and Lancashire Police.
Prosecutor John Batchelor said when Fitton was arrested in February 2025 officers seized 19 electronic devices and he was found in possession of more than 2,000 indecent images of children.
No boundaries
The court heard the mother of one of the young girls posed as a friend of her daughter online and Fitton sent her unsolicited images of himself performing a sex act.
Barrister Laura McBride, mitigating for Fitton, said he was aware of the very serious nature of the offences he had committed and knew he was facing a lengthy custodial sentence.
She said her client had lived “an insular and lonely life” and had turned to alcohol and spending most of his time online.
Judge McKone said it was clear Fitton had no boundaries and did not appear to be able to control his sexual urges.
She said his offending had been pre-planned over more than a year and said: “You are a manipulative groomer.
“You cannot control your sexual urges and that makes you dangerous.”
Fitton was sentenced to seven and a half years in a young offender institution with a five-year extension on licence.
He will sign the sex offender register for life and was given a 15-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
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