A British Airways pilot, Kwame Yeboah, is sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl after grooming her online. According to reports, the Reading, Berkshire-based man met the victim through an internet video chatroom and then exchanged explicit messages and made calls with her via social media as part of the grooming process. After establishing contact online, he drove about 200 miles to reach the child, using his Mercedes, and went on to commit the rape. The sentencing reflects the court’s handling of offences involving a child and the use of social media to facilitate the abuse. Coverage describes Yeboah as a former youth basketball player, and the case is presented as involving both the online grooming conduct and the sexual assault that followed. Details of the proceedings and other charges are not fully specified in the provided excerpts, but all accounts characterize the conviction and jail term as punishment for the grooming and rape.