A man from South Gloucestershire has been jailed after booking a B and B room in Swansea and planning to use it to have sexual activity with what he believed was a teenage girl.
49-year-old Rodolfa Galvao, from Yate, had been communicating online with the account purporting to be the underage girl. However, the account was in fact operated by a decoy group.
Galvao was arrested after being confronted by the group in Parc Tawe ahead of his planned stay in a Mumbles B and B. A review of Galvao’s phone showed he had sent messages which were sexual in nature to the account.
Galvao pleaded guilty to attempting to meet a girl under 16 years of age following grooming.
He has been committed to prison for 14 months.
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.”
