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A woman who sent explicit messages to a 14-year-old girl has been told by a judge to stop 'licking' the victim.

Jurors heard Natalie Cummins, 45, send thousands of sexual messages to the girl on a WhatsApp group named 'Cockalicious'.

A shocked friend of the teenager called police after discovering disturbing messages on her pal's phone.

The trial at Truro Crown Court was told Cummins exchanged thousands of messages with the victim about topics such as kissing, cuddling and sex.

One message, from the defendant, stated: "You know exactly where to touch me and for how long."

Cummins's husband of 15 years watched on from the public gallery throughout the trial as details of his wife's attempts to seduce the teenager were detailed, reports Cornwall Live.

Cummins was today given a 12 month community order and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for five years.

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The majority of their messages were sent via WhatsApp, while others were exchanged on Snapchat.

Sitting as judge, recorder Jane Rowley told Cummins: “You did impress on me during the course of giving your evidence of being an intelligent and hard working woman, who moved to this area in 2015 and built up what seems to be vibrant business."

While Cummins denied kissing the girl, she did admit to licking her face.

Recorder Rowley added: “No more licking Mrs Cummins. It’s a quite bizarre aspect of this case and you have to reign in your banter and sexual innuendo.''

Cummins was convicted by a jury on Wednesday evening after just over four hours of deliberation.

Opening the case, prosecuting barrister Philip Lee told the court that Cummins met the teenager in 2017.

Police were alerted to the messages by a friend of the teen, who discovered them while using her Snapchat account.

The friend took a total of 48 pictures of the conversations, which she forwarded to an officer from Devon and Cornwall Police.

The complainant was described as a "vulnerable" teenager.

Mr Lee continued: "She told the defendant that she was troubled and anxious.

"The defendant offered her support and advice. There came a time, where the prosecution says, that the defendant felt concern but she became sexually attracted to her.

"She went on to send sexual text messages and they were so obviously sexual and so obviously to encourage sexual thoughts that there is no doubt that it proves this is not just banter or rude jokes.

"The defence will argue that she sometimes responded because she didn’t want to upset the claimant. She confided in the defendant and told her about feeling rejected and unhappy at home.

"She told her that she self-harmed. They exchanged messages over many months."

Mr Lee revealed that the girl had asked a friend to log onto her Snapchat account to send a picture so that she could maintain her activity.

He continued: "When she did access the account, she noticed an incoming message from the defendant.

"She became concerned on seeing the previous messages and later logged on to the account and photographed the messages and took 48 photographs which she forwarded to a police officer."

The conversations, in which the defendant's user name was 'A Big Spoon', frequently referred to the pair "snuggling" or "cuddling".

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Another Snapchat from Cummins stated: "I like doing lots of things with my tongue tbf."

The teenager later said: "You should be in my bed," to which the defendant responded: "You definitely wouldn’t be getting your assignment done if I was."

Later in the conversation, Cummins wrote to the claimant: "I’m just trying not to be a total paedo," followed by a laughing emoji.

The messages also referred to the defendant wanting to kiss the girl and also made reference to enjoying "a** stuff".

Mr Lee explained that the claimant later messaged Cummins to warn her that she had been "reported" to the police.

Cummins then instructed the teenager to delete a number of messages and asked for her log in details for Snapchat.

Mr Lee added: "The defendant became sexually attracted to [the girl] and expressed this sexual attraction unambiguously.

"There was no doubt that the defendant wanted to encourage [the teenager] to feel the same way towards her. She wanted to encourage [the girl] to have a sexual relationship with her, if not now then at some point in the future."