A TEENAGER has pleaded guilty to a catalogue of sexual offences committed against a 12-year-old girl.

Paedophile Brooklyn Clarke, 18, from Newport is due to be sentenced in the new year.

He admitted sexual assault of a child, sexual assault of a child by touching, causing or inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity, making an indecent photograph of a child and possession of an indecent photograph of a child.

The offences took place between 2021 and 2022, Cardiff Crown Court was told.

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Clarke, of Halle Close, will be sentenced on January 11.

The defendant was granted conditional bail by Judge Simon Mills.