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A man who was attacked and filmed after arranging to meet an under-age girl he befriended on the internet has admitted a charge of grooming.
Andrew O'Neill, 25, believed he was meeting a 14-year-old girl called Alex in Wigan, Greater Manchester.
But when he arrived at the rendezvous, he was beaten by a group of men who filmed the attack before posting it online, Wigan Magistrates' Court heard.
O'Neill, of Skelmersdale, Lancashire, will be sentenced next month.
The court heard detectives were still trying to trace the men who lured him to the town centre attack, in which two of his teeth were knocked out.
Nicola Ormerod, prosecuting, said O'Neill had booked a hotel room and was found in possession of a tube of lubricant.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-32379864