Jobless paedophile living with his parents pretended to be top RAPPER to groom 10,000 children online and film himself having sex with schoolgirls in their uniforms

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Daniel Rodriguez, 28, boasted of being a hip hop megastar to groom five schoolgirls as young as 13 for sex after they responded to his Facebook friend invitations

A pervert posed as a top gangster rapper to target 10,000 children via social media.

Daniel Rodriguez, 28, boasted of being a hip hop megastar to groom five schoolgirls as young as 13 for sex after they responded to his Facebook friend invitations.

But in reality the jobless paedophile was was living at home with his parents and sister in a cramped terraced house in Hackney.

As he faces jail, police warned that child exploitation online had become so common that ‘most girls’ in Britain have received an inappropriate message on social media.

Detective Superintendent John Macdonald of Scotland Yard’s Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command said they had seen an increasing pattern of abuse of grooming online.

‘If you ask any young girl whether they have had contact with someone on social media they don’t know and has asked them to send something inappropriate, I would imagine most girls have had some sort of contact,’ he said.

‘Social media enables people who want to have sex with children to approach scores if not hundreds of them online in an attempt to meet up.

‘Last week the MP for Rotherham Sarah Champion warned that social media gives abusers much greater access to children and this is certainly something that we are seeing in our investigations.

‘We need to raise awareness amongst both children and parents about online dangers so that they can make informed decisions about who to meet via social media.’

He said that online grooming of children was grossly under-reported as many of the victims were too ashamed or frightened to come forward, adding: ‘The (police investigation) figures are not a clear reflection of what is happening.’

Rodriguez, who is known as Grimey D, and pictured here with his mother, filmed himself having sex with schoolgirls in school uniform after contacting them online and persuading them to come to his home

Rodriguez, who is known as Grimey D, filmed himself having sex with schoolgirls in school uniform after contacting them online and persuading them to come to his home.

The paedophile sent out more than 10,000 messages to youngsters through Facebook, What’s App, Instagram and Blackberry Messenger as he trawled the web for vulnerable victims.

After being befriended by one girl, he bombarded her friends and then their friends with messages over a three-year period between 2012-2015.

The tattooed rapper who posted a series of music videos on YouTube showing him performing his music with a scantily-clad woman in lingerie wearing a mask, projected an image that he was a famous hip hip star to ensnare his victims.

He groomed them by complimenting their appearance, telling them he loved them and inviting them to his home before filming himself having sex with five girls aged 13 to 15.

The girls were forced to carry out his demands which became more sexually demeaning, but none of them went to the police fearing that they would be blamed.

Rodriguez was only caught by chance when police examined the phone of a 14-year-old girl in an unrelated investigation and discovered messages from him.

The paedophile sent out more than 10,000 messages to youngsters through Facebook, What’s App, Instagram and Blackberry Messenger as he trawled the web for vulnerable victims

Following his arrest on August 27 last year, police found videos of Rodriguez having sex with four of the victims - three aged 14 and one aged 15.

They also recovered an indecent image of a sixth girl.

In the face of the overwhelming evidence, he later pleaded guilty in June to five counts of sexual activity with a child, one sexual assault and four counts of creating an indecent image of a child.

Rodriguez is now due to be jailed at Wood Green Crown Court later tomorrow.

Detective Superintendent John Macdonald described him as a ‘dangerous and predatory paedophile’ yesterday as he warned that there may be many more victims.

He said: ‘Rodriguez’s exploitation and targeting of young girls was disgusting.

‘He used social media to groom children online, paying them compliments, pretending to be affectionate and sexually abusing them.

‘Unfortunately this is a pattern of abuse we are increasingly seeing.’

Only last week Rotherham MP Sarah Champion told ministers to ‘get a grip’ ahead of a Commons debate on the growing risks of online grooming.

Rodriguez is now due to be jailed at Wood Green Crown Court on Friday for grooming teenagers

Detective Constable John Knox, who was in charge of the investigation, added: ‘Daniel Rodriguez cast this huge net out online, with friend request after friend request, spamming all these girls.

‘He sent out 10,000 friend requests, got around 100 acceptances, and had sexual contact with six of them, all from sitting at his computer.

‘Rodriguez is a dangerous and predatory paedophile targeting and exploiting young, vulnerable girls.

‘He played on his image as a gangster rapper, his victims were fearful of him and believed they would be hurt if they spoke to anyone in authority.

‘And these girls are intimidated by the fact and worried there would be repercussions, because of his gangster rap image.

‘But the reality is he was a 28-year-old man, living at home with his mum and dad and big sister, not exactly the gangster rap image of Doctor Dre.’

He added: ‘The online world is a very dangerous world.

‘There are people online that are doing very bad things to their children and parents need to understand that.’