Chantelle Johnson has been jailed for nine years and four months

A deceitful teenage girl who pretended to be young boys online so she could groom young girl has been jailed for more than nine years.

Chantelle Johnson, a 19-year-old from Middlesbrough, spun a bizarre and elaborate web of deception inventing seven fictional characters to con three younger schoolgirls.

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She even invented a bogus family with a fake child’s funeral and a dying father.

Her crimes only came to light when the suspicious mother of one of the girls uncovered her lies.


Johnson, of Beechwood, admitted 12 charges of meeting girls following sexual grooming, causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, sexual assault, causing a girl to be involved in pornography and perverting the course of justice.

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She was jailed for nine years and four months at Teesside Crown Court yesterday.



An NSPCC spokesman said: ‘Johnson systematically set out to groom three young girls knowing full well that her behaviour was wrong.’

Detective Constable Michelle Roxby of Cleveland Police’s Vulnerable, Exploited, Missing and Trafficked Team said: ‘In this particular case, Johnson went on to form physical relationships in which she spun a web of lies and deceit, giving her the opportunity to commit sexual offences.

‘Her arrest, and now lengthy prison sentence has prevented her from targeting further victims, but I hope that it also gives reassurance to other victims of sexual exploitation that offenders will be brought to justice and would encourage them to come forward and speak to us.

‘I am delighted with the sentence that the Judge has passed today and hope it acts as a warning to others intent on exploiting and manipulating children online, that they will be dealt with robustly.’

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