A father-of-four who was snared by paedophile hunters while trying to meet a '13-year-old girl' for sex has been jailed for two years.
Raymond Carpenter, 40, was expecting to meet the 'child' at Manchester Piccadilly station on July 5 last year, but was instead met by up to a dozen members of the vigilante group, who live streamed the confrontation on Facebook.
The video shows Carpenter holding his head in his hands as the vigilantes tell him to 'stop preying on our children' and brand him 'Raymond the monster of Manchester'.
It came after he had previously sent a picture of his genitals to the 'girl', whose social media account was being run by a decoy adult woman, Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court heard.
He was said to have been left 'humiliated' by the group, which calls itself the Elusive Child Protection Unit.
The video, in which Carpenter says he 'made a mistake' after being branded a 'beast', has since been viewed 250,000 times.
Carpenter was handed a two-year sentence after he pleaded guilty to attempting to engage in sexual communications with a child, attempting to incite a child into sexual activity, and arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence
Bob Elias, mitigating, said his client was 'terrified' of going to jail.
Mr Elias said: 'He is the lowest of the low as a sex offender.'
Mr Elias claimed Carpenter's actions were all part of a 'fantasy' in his mind.
The court heard how Carpenter began chatting with the 'girl', known as Kimberley, asking her: 'Are you a good girl or naughty?'
During the conversation the 'girl' told him she was only 13 years old.
But the chat became sexual and he asked whether she had seen a 'man's bits', and if she had ever 'played with herself'.
