British police officer who groomed children on Snapchat jailed for life

A British police officer was jailed for life on Wednesday for grooming dozens of young girls into sharing explicit images of themselves through Snapchat, in the latest shocking case involving a serving officer. Lewis Edwards, 24, admitted 162 offences of child sexual abuse against girls aged 10 to 16, who he also blackmailed with the threat of exposure, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said. Edwards posed as a teenage boy to target more than 200 girls between 2019 and February this year and manipulate them into sending him indecent images.