"He wanted these children to meet him for sex and had disregard for their age," said the prosecutor. "When told their age, he said 'age is a number, that's all it is.'"
Luring four females over the Internet to have sex with him -- one of whom he wanted to have his baby -- should land a city man in jail for 18 to 24 months, a prosecutor argued on Friday.
Nadine Nesbitt said Matthew Alan Armstrong is a "predator" who made contact with a 14-year-old girl, a 15-year-old girl, a 19-year-old woman posing as a 13-year-old girl and an undercover police officer who told him she was 13, on the popular Internet chat site Nexopia.
She said he even met the 14-year-old at a C-Train station and had sex with her in a washroom.
The 19-year-old woman, court has heard, was inspired to pose as a 13-year-old girl after watching the television show To Catch a Predator and conversed online with the offender.
During the period of May 28 to June 3, Nesbitt added, Armstrong sent messages to more than 100 girls, half of them 14 to 16 years old.
Altogether, she presented 532 pages of chats the offender had with the females, primarily on Nexopia.
"He wanted these children to meet him for sex and had disregard for their age," said the prosecutor. "When told their age, he said 'age is a number, that's all it is.'"
Armstrong, 27, also admitted to three counts of breaching his release condition by contacting and being in the presence of females under 18.
Defence lawyer Balfour Der, who said his client has served equivalent to a year in remand (double time for six months) and should not have to go to jail anymore.
He said the label predator was "too sophisticated" for his client, who has an infantile form of myotonic muscular dystrophy, which severely affects his behaviour.
Der requested Dr. Michael Brooke, a neurologist who testified Armstrong, testify about the illness so the court can better understand before sentencing.
Provincial court Judge Allan Fradsham agreed to the adjournment, but also told Der: "It strikes me he knows very much about what he was doing, he knew it was wrong, and he tried to ensure he doesn't get caught."
The case will be back on Tuesday to set a date for continuation of sentencing arguments.
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