He was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday, 16 April.
Marc Noonan, 27, of Fenwick Street, pleaded guilty to eleven sexual offences prior to appearing at trial on other matters.
Noonan will serve a minimum of 18 years minus time spent on remand, until there is any possibility of parole.In January, Noonan was found guilty of a further 29 sexual offences.
The offences took place between 2022 and 2023, against three girls between the ages of 13 and 16.
He met them via the social media sites Tik Tok and Snapchat.
He encouraged them to believe they were in a relationship.
All the girls told Noonan their real age. He often lied that he was younger than he was.
He would coerce them into sending him intimate photos of themselves and he would then manipulate them into meeting him, at which point he would commit serious sexual offences against them, including rape.
Before the trial, he pleaded guilty to several sexual offences committed against one of the victims, as well as disclosing private sexual photographs of the second victim and threatening to disclose private sexual photographs of the third.
He would demand intimate pictures of the girls and would threaten them if they refused.
When they sent the pictures, he would switch from being angry to being calm and affectionate.One of the victims described how Noonan would speak to her in a way that made her feel like what had happened wasn’t bad.
She was made to feel like it was her fault and that she was overreacting.
When he forced himself on her he would advise her not to fight back.
Noonan was emotionally manipulative and physically violent with all three victims, which had a profound effect on them.
The methods described by the victims led police to believe it was the same person responsible and Noonan was arrested in February 2023.
He was charged with 41 counts.He pleaded guilty to 12 of the counts before the trial.
He was then convicted of a further 28 counts after trial and was acquitted of a single count of non-fatal strangulation.
Marc Noonan, DOB: 3.6.1997Marc Noonan pleaded guilty to :CAUSING OR INCITING A CHILD TO ENGAGE IN SEXUAL ACTIVITY X 4
SEXUAL COMMUNICATION WITH A CHILD x 2
MEETING A CHILD FOLLOWING SEXUAL GROOMING x 1
SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH A CHILD X3
DISCLOSING PRIVATE SEXUAL PHOTOGRAPHS WITH INTENT TO CAUSE DISTRESS X 1
THREATENING TO DISCLOSE PRIVATE SEXUAL PHOTOGRAPHS WITH INTENT TO CAUSE DISTRESS X 1
He was found guilty after a trial of:SEXUAL ASSAULT X 6
RAPE X 10
BREACH OF A SEXUAL HARM PREVENTION ORDER X 1
ASSAULT BY PENETRATION X 4
CAUSING OR INCITING A CHILD TO ENGAGE IN SEXUAL ACTIVITY X 2
SEXUAL COMMUNICATION WITH A CHILD X 2
MEETING A CHILD FOLLOWING SEXUAL GROOMING X 1
POSSESSION OF INDECENT PHOTOGRAPHS OF A CHILD X 1
ONE OTHER CHARGE
