A man who travelled from Victoria to Queensland to meet who he thought was a 14-year-old girl he had contacted online, unaware it was a police sting, will spend six months behind bars.
Shane Douglas Grapsas, 49, fronted the Brisbane District Court on Monday after pleading guilty to multiple charges, including using a carriage service to groom persons under 16 years of age.
The court heard the Victorian man travelled to Brisbane in December 2014 after corresponding with a girl he met via the online dating website RSVP.
Prosecutor Aimee Sanderson said the girl's profile initially listed her as 18 but once contact was made by Douglas, she was presented as a 14-year-old school student lying about her age to pass the website's restrictions.
Their communications persisted for more than three months and continued to the point where Douglas sent pictures of his genitals, masturbated on webcam and made sexual comments to the fictitious girl, the court heard.