A YATE man who believed he was meeting a teenage girl has been jailed after an online grooming sting.
Rodolfa Galvao, aged 49, from Yate, had booked a bed and breakfast room in Swansea with the intention of engaging in sexual activity with someone he thought was an underage girl.
Galvao had been communicating online with an account purporting to be the underage girl.
However, the account was in fact operated by a decoy group.
Galvao was confronted and arrested by the group in Parc Tawe, Swansea, before his intended stay at the B and B in the Mumbles area.
A review of his phone revealed he had sent sexually explicit messages to the account, which he believed belonged to a child.
He later pleaded guilty to attempting to meet a girl under the age of 16 following grooming.
Galvao was sentenced to 14 months in prison.
Detective Constable Rebecca Brain said: "Rodolfa Galvao believed he was communicating with a child and still sent explicit sexual messages to them, even going to the lengths of arranging to meet them.
"It is clear that he poses a danger to children, and it is fortunate that the 'child' at the other end of the conversation was not real.
"He is fully deserving of a spell in prison."
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