A Nottinghamshire woman who started sexual relationships with underage boys on Facebook and bought one of them clothes as a treat has been jailed.
Gail Wright, 44, from Shireoaks, near Worksop, met the boys in 2015 when they were aged 14 and 15 and went on to get close to them online.
Wright struck up a friendship with the first boy who felt he could talk to her about things. But this escalated into her sending him naked pictures of herself and making sexually explicit comments.
He used a friend’s phone to talk to her one day – but didn’t log out of Facebook so his friend began seeing her messages and also made contact with Wright.
During this time, she sent nude photos of herself and videos containing sexual acts to all of the boys.
She also bought one of them Nike Air trainers and clothes for his 16th birthday after she had begun a sexual relationship with him.
Her behaviour was only uncovered when the father of one of the boys saw the pictures on his phone. Eventually all the youngsters’ parents saw what had been happening and it was reported to the police.
Wright, of Elmtree Close, was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday, July 15.
Investigating officers found 42 images on Wright’s iPad which she had sent to the boys.
DI Pete Quinn from Nottinghamshire Police said: “This was an unusual case in that the perpetrator was a woman.
“But this goes to show that although the overwhelming majority of sexual exploitation cases brought to the attention of police are perpetrated by men against girls, we cannot be complacent about the fact that it can happen to anyone, anywhere.
“The teenagers in this case have shown courage and maturity in disclosing what happened and I hope that the sentence handed down today will help them and their families move on from a very distressing time.”
