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A NSW man said to have the mental capacity of a child has been spared jail for trying to groom a 13-year-old girl for sex.
Timothy George Kemp was arrested at Waratah Railway Station in May 2020, two months after he received a Facebook friend request from the girl - in reality an undercover police officer - and struck up a conversation which quickly turned sexual.
In the Newcastle District Court on Wednesday, Kemp's lawyer argued the 37-year-old's offending was caused by his intellectual disability and alcoholism.
Timothy George Kemp is set to serve his sentence in the community after attempting to groom a young girl, who turned out to be an undercover police officer, for sex (stock image)
"(In) interpersonal relationships, he functions as an eight-and-a-half-year-old … coping skills, a 12-year-old, written (communication) eight years, one
