Matthew Munn: Carrum painter uses KIK to prey on young girls
A Carrum tradie has been caught hunting teen girls again — and despite showing little remorse, his fiance is standing by him.
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An engaged man who has served jail time for having sex with a 14-year-old girl has been busted returning to his predatory ways.
Matthew Munn, 35, fronted the County Court on Tuesday, pleading guilty to two charges of using a carriage service to procure a person believed to be under 16 years of age.
The Carrum painter took to social media and sought out more 14-year-old girls, who he tried to meet with for sex, less than four years after he was jailed for assaulting one who he’d groomed on Snapchat.
Munn, a registered sex offender for life, approached who he thought was a 14-year-old girl called ‘Lucy’ — but was actually an undercover cop — on KIK on July 20, 2020.
He used a profile picture of a woman when he began chatting to ‘Lucy’, then claimed a woman had been using his phone.
Munn told ‘Lucy’ she was cute, then suggested she come for a vacation at the beach, saying “I think your really hot and I wanna hook up with you”.
The sex offender then asked her to send him explicit photos of herself in return for a photo of his genitalia.
“Just so u know I don’t mind sending u a pic of my d*ck on here if u want 1,” he said before sending a video of him touching himself under his clothing.
He continued to ask ‘Lucy’ for explicit photos then escalated to asking her to meet him.
On September 25 he texted her, “Im getting in shower wish u were here”.
The following day he suggested meeting up with her, saying, “you make me really horny”, and “do u want to catch up and hook up?” before sending an explicit photo of himself.
Hours later he reneged, saying, “I don’t want to get in trouble … Im too old for you!”
But on October 5 he suggested they exchange nude photos before they met and texted her explicit messages about sexual acts he wanted to perform on her.
The pair organised to meet on October 9 before Munn again pulled out, telling her, “I can’t be doing this with u!! I have something wrong with me to want to do this with a 14 yo!”
Munn had reached out to another KIK user he thought was a 14-year-old girl called ‘Isy’, who was also an undercover cop, on June 13, 2020.
He asked ‘Isy’ if she was single, and continued contact with her in October, offering her explicit photos of himself and asking for naughty pictures of her.
Munn told her he would take her for a drive to a park, saying, “I want u soo bad”.
Munn was arrested on October 14.
The court heard he had been granted parole after he was jailed in August 2016 for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old.
It was heard he had begun dating his fiance shortly after he was arrested over that matter — but before his jail sentence — and was still with her.
She provided a positive character reference to the court, as did Munn’s family members.
Judge Tinney noted Munn had “pretended to be single” and asked if Munn had any contrition.
Munn’s lawyer said his client had “some contrition”, as shown by his guilty plea, even though the evidence against him was strong, forcing his hand.
The lawyer said Munn had family support and that the gravity of his crime was lessened because Munn had pulled out of meeting ‘Lucy’.
Judge Tinney disagreed, saying Munn had done what he was charged with, aware it was illegal.
Judge Tinney said there weren’t many matters in mitigation for Munn’s crimes, and that the offender would be handed a lengthy jail sentence on July 27.
