Deviant Gisborne dad Michael Taylor pleads guilty to grooming a child under 16 for sex

A fiend Gisborne dad sent sexually explicit messages and images to a young schoolgirl after meeting his victim at a children’s park.

Michael Taylor pleaded guilty to grooming a child for sex. Facebook.

A sicko Gisborne dad who groomed a schoolgirl for sex after meeting his victim at the Woodend Children’s Park has avoided a jail stint.

Michael Taylor, 32, was sentenced in the County Court on Thursday to an 18-month community correction order after pleading guilty to use a carriage service to groom person under 16 years to engage in sexual activity.

Taylor barraged his victim with lewd messages and images via Facebook between November 2019 and March last year.

The fiend suggested to his victim they meet up for drinks and discussed the pair doing drugs together.

Taylor sent a half-naked image of himself and asked his victim to send him a photograph.

He then followed this with a serious of graphic messages.

Taylor ramped up his sexually explicit messages to his schoolgirl victim.

Taylor also sent a message to the young girl which claimed he had a “massive d**k”.

The fiend’s depravity ended abruptly on March 27 after Taylor’s partner discovered a message he sent the victim.

“Well u still wanna see if I can get u off,” Taylor said.

Taylor and his partner got into an argument which drew police to their home.

Taylor was hauled in for questioning but denied knowing his victim.

The fiend then contacted his victim after he was released.

“Misses went threw my phone get that shit delete it …,” Taylor said.

Taylor also told the victim he would be going to jail and asked if she would miss him.

Police, who managed to track down the victim, discovered some messages on the girl’s phone.

Several other messages had been deleted, the court was told.

The victim told police Taylor sent her a Facebook friend request after meeting him at the park.

Taylor was arrested then later charged in July last year.

The court heard Taylor was raised in the Gisborne/Sunbury area and worked several jobs after leaving Gisborne Secondary College.

Taylor also has several children to two former partners who are half-sisters.

The court heard Taylor hopes to have full care of his children once the legal proceedings have been finalised.

Taylor was made a registered sex offender for eight years.

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