Wife brings husband's 'sexcapades' to a stop
Man was stunned when detectives broke the news that he had actually been chatting up his wife
London: A wife posed as a schoolgirl online to catch her husband using an internet chatroom to groom underage girls for sex.
Cheryl Roberts, 61, had become concerned about the amount of time her husband David spent at his computer. When a strongly-worded sexual message appeared on his screen while he was out, her suspicions were raised even further, a court heard.
To her disgust, Roberts discovered that her 68-year-old husband of 20 years had been logging on to a teenage chatroom.
Rather than confront him, his wife used a second computer in their home to join the same chatroom, pretending she was a 14-year-old girl. But after he propositioned the ‘girl' and asked to meet her for sex, his wife decided to act, contacting the police.
He was stunned when detectives broke the news that he had actually been chatting up his wife.
Roberts, a former pub landlord who has grown-up children, denied having sex with any schoolgirls — but admitted he had been "prepared to do so".
Roberts was given a three-year community order and banned from access to children under the age of 18, in person or online. The court heard that the couple, from Bridgend, South Wales, are getting divorced.
Roberts, who has two children from a previous relationship, has moved out of their home and is staying with friends.
She said: "I was shocked at the sentence — I don't think he's got what he deserves. I thought the judge would be a lot harder and that he might go to prison."
