Cyber flashing became a criminal offence in England with the passage of the Online Safety Act on 31 January. It has been a crime in Scotland since 2010.
A man has been sentenced for cyber flashing in England for the first time. Nicholas Hawkes, 39, from Basildon in Essex, was jailed for 66 weeks at Southend Crown Court today after he sent unsolicited photos of his erect penis to a 15-year-old girl and a woman on 9 February. The offence covers the sending of an unsolicited sexual image to people via social media, dating apps, text message or data-sharing services such as Bluetooth and AirDrop.
He was already a registered sex offender and will be until November 2033, having been convicted of sexual activity with a child under 16 and exposure last year. The older victim took screenshots of the offending image on WhatsApp and reported Hawkes to the police the same day.
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