A PERVERT tried to entice a teenage boy to exchange intimate pictures online.
Luke Hawes made requests to see the boy who was under 16.
The 22-year-old from Hailsham made the demands online from August 2017 to September 2017.
It was “for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification”, a court heard.
Hawes appeared before Hastings Magistrates’ Court where he admitted the charge of communicating with a boy under the age of 16.
He was ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work, with 20 rehabilitation sessions.
Magistrates also ordered him to pay £85 costs and an £85 surcharge.
Hawes, of Ditchling Way, Hailsham, was put on the sex offenders register for five years and under the terms of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
The order cuts his access to anyone under 18, phones or computers, and to social media without police permission.
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