A former AMP employee groomed a teenage girl for sex after he contacted her on Snapchat and organised a secret meeting.
Andrew Tyedin, 33, was sentenced in the Victorian County Court on Friday to at least two years and four months behind bars after pleading guilty to several charges, including sexual penetration of a child, grooming a child and producing and possessing child abuse material.
While handing down her sentence, Judge Kellie Blair described Tyedin’s crimes in detail, starting by how he contacted his 15-year-old victim via teen social media app Yubo in December 2019.
They then moved their conversation to Snapchat where he pretended to be a 17-year-old boy named Sam and organised to travel to Warrnambool to meet the girl, she said.
Tyedin also asked her to send bikini pictures and other lewd images.
The pair met in January 2020 at a retail carpark before they drove to the Comfort Inn where he had sex with the girl and filmed it on his iPhone, Judge Blair said.
They never met again until Tyedin contacted the victim via Snapchat once more, a year later.
The girl’s mother became concerned after finding lewd images on her daughter’s phone and iPad. She contacted police who swooped on Tyedin’s Doncaster home andxjmtzyw arrested him.
Detectives seized his hard drive from the property that had videos and images of his victim.
The victim described being “scared” and unable to eat or sleep.
Judge Blair described Tyedin’s crimes as “deceptive” and said there was evidence the accused wanted to “bolster his fragile self-esteem and fulfil a sexual desire”.
She took into account he was suffering from mental health issues due to career pressures courtesy of a banking royal commission and a company reshuffle.
Tyedin was convicted and sentenced to four years and three months jail with a non-parole period of two years and four months.
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