An "immature" man in his 20s unable to come to terms with impending fatherhood ended up having casual sex with a teenage girl.

It cost Terance Parker his good character and led to a two year prison sentence as the girl was only 13 years old.

A jury had convicted him of a total of six charges following a trial.

Parker, 25, of Tunnah Road, Thornton Cleveleys, had been found guilty of three charges of sexual activity with a child and one of causing or inciting her to engage in sexual activity.

He was convicted of two charges of abducting a second girl.

Judge Stuart Baker said the defendant had encouraged the girls to behave in an appropriate and silly flirtatious way, sending text messages to them, meeting them after school and offering to show off in his sports car.

The court heard that in relation to the thirteen year old, Parker had driven her to a quiet spot near Blackpool Airport where touching took place and then sex.

The abudction charges involved him taking the other girl for a ride in the car, thus taking her away from parental control.

He was a man without any previous convictions and assessed by the probation service as a low risk of re-offending.

Mr Chris Hudson, defending, said he had learned a very painful lesson, very painful for both him and his wife and family.

"He is young beyond his years, immature and with a lack of perception.

"These are offences of stupidity when presented with temptation, rather than of malice.

"He clearly isn't a predator. The girls had genuinely been attracted to him".

The judge also told Parker he was sentencing him on the basis that the defendant believed the first girl was sixteen years old.

"You couldnot come to terms with prospective fatherhood and behaved very irresponsibly, a laddish type of lifestyle where you regarded casual sex as attractravtive."

He was told he will be on the sex offenders' list for ten years and banned from working with children.