Mother poses as her own teenage daughter to catch paedophile luring her into 'master and slave' sex game on Facebook
Stranger asks who he believes is a schoolgirl to sit on her bed and say 'I've been a very bad girl'
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Your support makes all the difference.A mother posed as her own 13-year-old daughter to catch out a man trying to lure the teenager into playing "sex and slave" games.
Kelly Carberry became worried when she spotted a message on her daughter's Facebook account saying "do you promise to keep your mouth closed about what is said on here".
The mother, who said she had decided to check her daughter Chloe-Marie's account for the first time, went along with the conversation to find out what the stranger wanted from the schoolgirl.
Believing he was chatting to the 13-year-old, the man said she could not tell anyone about the conversation.
"What is said on here stays in here only and you cannot tell anyone else ok. Do you understand?" he wrote.
Playing her part, Ms Carberry replied that she did understand.
Then the man asked her if she was in her bedroom on her own and added "so we can play a game do you like games?".
"Love them," the mum replied.
The man then asked her to lock the door, sit on her bed and "say hi master".
"Say I've been a very bad girl," he added.
At that point, Ms Carberry, from Preston, Lancashire, revealed her identity asking the man "what do you think you are doing with all these young girls on your Facebook".
The mother said the Facebook user reportedly deleted two of his accounts following the conversation but she believed he had at least three.
The incident was reported to Lancashire Police and a spokesman confirmed an investigation was ongoing.
Ms Carberry decided to go online to warn other parents about the man, who was trying to lure her daughter. She said she received a number of messages from concerned parents, which led her to believe the man had been trying to contact young girls across the North West of England.
Ms Carberry said the account used to lure her daughter had a description which read: "I am Jess, a 31-year-old transgender female and I only speaks to girls".
She said she would now check her daughter's social media accounts.
"It's just what I have got to do as a parent to make sure they're safe but it's a difficult thing when she's 13," she said.
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