A MOTHER from the Rednal area has admitted taking a photo of her six-year-old daughter wearing fishnet tights and sending it to a man she met online.

The woman, who is in her 30s, pleaded not guilty at Coventry Crown Court to causing or inciting her child to engage in sexual activity.

The court heard how, at the request of pervert Paul Fryer, she had recorded the girl dressing in fishnet tights and sent the movie clip to him.

Fryer, 39, of Farm Street, Harbury, appeared at court via a video link from prison.

He had been remanded in custody after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing to causing the six-year-old to engage in sexual activity, namely the wearing of fishnet tights.

Fryer, who reportedly had a history of sexual offending, had been arrested after police found the film on his phone.

From that, detectives traced the mother, who cannot be named to protect her daughter’s identity.

In response to her not guilty plea, Claire Evans, defending, said: “She is not going to accept anything sexual in relation to the child.

“While she accepts taking the photographs and sending them, she does not accept any intention to incite her child to engage in sexual activity, and did not consider it to be sexual activity.”

Judge Andrew Lockhart QC said: “It occurs to me that someone made potentially an indecent photograph of a child, which is a different offence but does not require the element of incitement [to engage in sexual activity].

“A six-year-old in fishnet tights might mean a jury found it very easy to decide that issue. I wonder whether that might resolve the case.”

Adjourning the case for that to be considered, Judge Lockhart told Miss Evans: “If she accepts taking the photographs, you will have to advise her it is completely irrelevant whether she thinks it’s indecent.”

When the hearing resumed, prosecutor Adam Western asked to add a further charge of making an indecent image of a child – to which the mother then pleaded guilty.

Judge Lockhart said it was not just possession of the image, but production, adding: “The main protagonist, on one view of the case, is not this defendant.”

He agreed to adjourn the case for a pre-sentence report to be prepared on the woman, who he ordered to register as a sex offender.

She was granted bail with a condition that she has no contact with any child under the age of 13 without the consent of social services.

Fryer had been due to be sentenced at the hearing, but his case was also adjourned after Judge Lockhart said the pair should be sentenced together.

He added: “It is going to be a custodial sentence of some duration in his case.”