Shane Glynn: Dubbo coach enters pleas in child sex talk case

A once highly-respected sporting coach for kids engaged in vile online chats looking for a child to carry out sexual acts.

A disgraced Dubbo man has admitted he went looking online for a child who would engage in sexual activity with him.

Shane Thomas Glynn pleaded guilty to using a carriage service to procure a child aged under 16 for sexual activity when he appeared in Dubbo Local Court on Thursday.

Shane Glynn.

He has pleaded guilty to using a carriage service to engage in sexual activity with a child. Pictures: Facebook

The 48-year-old entered another plea of guilty to one count of using a carriage service to engage in sexual activity with a child.

Glynn was arrested by detectives in July last year after undercover police posing as a children had the criminal conversations with him online.

Details of what was said during the conversations have not yet been made available.

A former coach of the Westside Panthers Football Club under-13 boy’s side and supporter of the Dubbo Basketball Association’s youth sides, Glynn appeared alone in court as he confessed to his crimes.

In court, Glynn’s lawyer asked Magistrate Gary Wilson to vary bail conditions to allow Glynn to use the internet to attend video appointments with health care providers.

Magistrate Wilson varied the bail conditions and adjourned the case to the Dubbo District Court on March 5.