Prosecutor Ruby Selva said: “Having befriended the victims she disguised herself as various 16-year-old boys for the sole purpose of having sexual relationships with them.”
Judge Peter Moss branded Barker, now 20, “mean and manipulative” and warned she could face jail. He said he could not be certain whether the cruel scam made her “bad and dangerous to know or mad and dangerous to know”.
Barker created bogus characters Aaron Lampard, Connor McCormack and Luke Jones on Facebook to lure her victims after they had told her about their “ideal” boyfriends.
After winning their confidence, she disguised herself as boys to meet them for kissing, cuddling and petting sessions at their homes.
The girls and their families knew Barker but did not suspect anything.
Ms Selva added: “Neither girl had any idea it was Miss Barker, their friend. If either of them had known of the deceit, that the boy they were having a relationship with was Miss Barker, they would not have consented to the acts.”
The prosecutor told the court that the older girl struck up a relationship with “Aaron Lampard” and the pair became an item before they even met.
She added: “She described meeting who she thought was Aaron in various parks, taking him home to her family.
“They too were taken in by the character, even though they had met Miss Barker. They described never really seeing Aaron Lampard’s face because of the hat being pulled down so low or him averting his eyes from them.”
via www.mirror.co.uk
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