BARRIE – A 27-year-old man who played on the sympathies of two teenage girls by pretending he had cancer pleaded guilty Monday to four charges related to sexual assault and child pornography.

Kyle Eeg entered the pleas in Barrie court as the parents of one of the girls watched from the gallery.

Eeg befriended their 16-year-old daughter on Facebook in February 2013, telling her he was from Ireland and had come to Canada to treat his cancer.

The high school student believed Eeg, who used the alias Keeley Jonas, was 19 when they first met online. At one point, the girl met Eeg in person while she was working in a local sandwich shop.

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“He told her that he needed a friend,” the mother told The Mirror in a previous interview. “He played on her sympathies so she would feel sorry for him.”

Eeg set up fake Facebook accounts pretending to be someone else and demanded she send nude photos or Eeg would be deported. The girl sent 50 to 100 explicit photos of herself, as well as live video feeds.

The online tormentor, who was actually Eeg, also demanded she have sex with Eeg or he would be reported and deported. In May 2013, the girl met Eeg at a local motel, where she had the first sexual encounter of her life with the man.

She later learned she had contracted the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia, court heard.

Eeg, a tall man with a shaved head, full beard and wire-rim glasses, also convinced the teen to approach a 15-year-old girl for him to have sex with to avoid his deportation.

The girl met with Eeg in some woods near the high school, where she engaged in extorted sexual acts, but ultimately refused his requests for intercourse.