Lance Reed, who told undercover cop he’d like to have sex with child, pleads guilty

A full-time delivery driver who had no idea he was talking to an undercover cop has made full admissions in court.

A delivery driver who told an undercover police officer he would “love to f**k a 13-year-old girl” has pleaded guilty to several child sexual offences.

Lance Reed, 47, pleaded guilty to communicate to make a child amenable to sexual activity, seven counts of disseminate child exploitation material and knowingly be in possession of child exploitation material.

A court previously heard Reed had a cloud-based storage consisting of thousands of illicit videos and images of children.

Prosecution say Reed started communicating with an undercover police officer online stating he was a “46-year-old bisexual from Adelaide’s south”.

The man will next appear in the District Court in August.

Reed was arrested during an early-morning sting in March outside a public toilet block after he was found inside a public cubicle.

Upon his first court appearance he appeared from hospital via video, nursing broken ribs and a punctured lung suffered during his arrest.

“When asked what he was in to, the defendant stated he was in to ‘all things to do with kinky’,” the prosecution said.

“The defendant disseminates three sexual images of female teenage girls before asking for the same type of images to be sent in return.

“During the initial on-scene triage, police located the communication with the defendant and the undercover operative.

“Further to this, police located a cloud-based storage which contains thousands of videos and images of children being sexually abused.”

Reed will next appear in the District Court for arraignment in August.