Jacques Doldersum, 25, of Sandpiper Close, Worcester was sent to prison for three years and eight months.

He was also given a sexual harm prevention order and will be included on the sex offenders’ register.

In September and October 2021, he used social media platform Kik to contact what he believed were two girls, aged 12 and 13.

He encouraged them to send indecent images to him and sent an indecent image of himself.

But these account were being operated by undercover officers.

Doldersum also made genuine contact with a vulnerable 14-year-old girl and also sent indecent images of himself to her and encouraged her to send indecent images to him.

He was arrested in November 2021 and analysis of his mobile phone discovered he had made indecent images of children.

He was subsequently charged with 12 sexual offences.