"My role is to protect children, not to harm them," he said.
The court heard Hockley and the girl exchanged more than 1000 messages on Snapchat over a three-week period. He described some of the specific messages he sent to the teen as "highly inappropriate", "ill-timed" or "an overshare", but never with the intention of de-sensitising the girl to the idea of sex.
Their everywhere! Mainly in government or protective services...
With all his training & his position he should have got minimum 6 years
Gets special treatment by the courts with such a light sentence and will have special treatment to be protected in prison too.
Is that all 2 years? He is suppose to protect!!
That sentence is ridiculously excessive.
Hope he gets a hiding
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