Sydney cemetery molester jailed

An internet user who solicited girls for sex in a Sydney cemetery and molested a 15-year-old in a tomb has been jailed for at least six years.

In the NSW District Court on Friday, Judge Peter Berman jailed Daniel William Peckham for a maximum of nine years.

He had pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl in an open tomb at Sydney's Rookwood cemetery in April 2007.

The 24-year-old also admitted three counts each of using a carriage service to procure underage girls for sexual activity and to transmit child pornography.

Peckham also pleaded guilty to using a carriage service to menace one victim and two counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Peckham set up a website, Rookwood Gothic Society, to solicit minors for sexual activity.

The site stated "if you have hang-ups about getting naked, then you are not welcome and if you are not willing to let me have sex with you, then you are not welcome".

The judge said Peckham had manipulated naive and immature young girls for his own sexual gratification.

Peckham, who was on a disability support pension, had problems "socialising in places other than cyber space" the judge said, noting his social ineptitude and his functioning at the level of an adolescent.

The sentence was backdated to when Peckham went into custody and the earliest date he will be eligible for parole is June 21, 2013.

- AAP