Exclusive:Paedophile hunters snare Doncaster man who wanted to have sex with girl, 13 - and her mother
“This was both serious and deplorable conduct”
Paedophile hunters helped catch a man who sent sexual pictures of himself to online profiles of young girls - and asked them to send images to him.
Carl Grice was already on bail for a similar offence when he began communicating with three online profiles purporting to be teenage girls.
But they were in fact fake and all run by a paedophile hunter group.
The profiles told him they were either aged 13 or 14, and one even sent a picture of herself in a school uniform, Sheffield Crown Court heard.
A hearing on May 22, 2026 heard how Grice sent each of the profiles pictures of his genitals, and videos showing him engaging in a sex act.
He asked each of the profiles to send him intimate pictures of themselves in return, prosecutor Peter Byrne said.
Jailing Grice for two years, Judge Michael Slater told him: “This was both serious and deplorable conduct on your behalf - which I think you now readily acknowledge.”
Mr Byrne, prosecuting, said matters came to a head following Grice’s communication with the final of the three profiles, who had claimed to be 13-years-old and told him that she, too, lived in the Doncaster area.
“He asked her if she would be interested in having sex with an older man…he asked her if she wanted to meet up,” Mr Byrne said.
“He asked if she could leave her home to meet him, and if he could have sex with her - and her mother if she wanted to join in.”
Grice, of Travis Gardens, Hexthorpe, Doncaster, continued communicating with the profile, asking for sexual images, before asking the profile if she was alone for the night.
Mr Byrne added: “By this time, members of the group had attended at his home and the police were contacted.”
The group recorded a video of Grice as he was confronted.
Grice subsequently kicked out at the officer who attended the incident, as he attempted to handcuff him.
Following his arrest, officers seized three electronic devices from Grice and found hundreds of child abuse images.
Grice was charged with a catalogue of sex offences, including attempting to meet a girl under 16 years of age following grooming, arranging/facilitating the commission of an offence of sexual activity with a child, attempting to cause/ incite a girl 13 to 15 to engage in sexual activity - along with making indecent images of children, all of which he pleaded guilty to at an earlier hearing.
Grice also admitted assaulting a constable.
Defending, Ed Moss told the court that Grice had endured a difficult childhood, during which he was taken into care at the age of just 12, and has never had the benefit of positive role models to guide him through life.
He said Grice has never recovered from the death of his twin brothers, and in the years that followed, had turned to cocaine and cannabis.
Grice made the subject of a five-year sexual harm prevention order.