Satanist uses MySpace to feed desire for teen girls

Satanist uses MySpace to feed desire for teen girls. A Satanist obsessed with teenage schoolgirls invented a fake gothic society online to groom them for sex in the grounds of Sydney's Rookwood Cemetery.

Daniel William Peckham, 24, lured at least three girls, aged from 13 to 17, into the cemetery on his MySpace blog, "Rookwood Gothic Society".

A message on the site read: "If you have hang-ups about getting naked ... you are not welcome."

Peckham pleaded guilty yesterday to the aggravated sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl and to using the internet to solicit and transmit naked pictures of young girls between 2005 and 2007.

The opening day of his sentencing hearing in the District Court heard after he was charged he continued to send letters from jail to girls he met through the blog.

Extracts from the letters and journals Peckham has kept in prison were read to the court by Crown Prosecutor Bruce Levet to show his preoccupation with young girls had not changed.

"I like schoolgirls, they excite me," he wrote in one journal entry. "I'm going to turn Sydney into a big underage gang bang."

In a letter, he wrote he would "do the Devil's work until the day I die" and "keep luring young girls into Satan's loving embrace of carnal delights".

Psychiatrist Michael Diamond said Peckham's drive to obtain access to young girls had been "the core of his existence". / news.com.au