A MAN has been charged with sexual offences against children in connection to a complaint made by a parent over a meeting that came about through a social networking website.

Waqar Hussain, aged 24, from Kingsway, Luton, has been charged with one count of meeting a child following sexual grooming contrary to section 15 of the sexual offences act; one count of sexual touching of a child under 16 contrary to section 9 of the sexual offences act, and one count of sexual activity with a child under 16 contrary to section 9 of the sexual offences act.

The charges are in relation to a complaint made by the mother of a teenage girl in High Wycombe, that her daughter had been contacted via a social networking site by a man and she had met up with him earlier this year. Hussain has been remanded in custody to appear at Oxford Crown Court on December 21.