A teenager used a fake Facebook profile to dupe an autistic young man into sending her naked snaps.

Rhianna Cannell then threatened to share the compromising photographs if the vulnerable victim did not pay her, a court heard yesterday.

The 19-year-old, from Ayr, managed to get £100 out of her victim, who is 24 and has Asperger syndrome – a form of autism.

And the 18-year-old girl she was impersonating using a fake Facebook profile ended up being held by police and suspected of being responsible for the disgusting con trick.

But Cannell is now facing justice for her crime, the Daily Record reports.

Cannell allegedly stole another teenage girl's Facebook identity (
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Ayr Sheriff Court was told that while posing as the other girl, Cannell promised to meet the man on the condition he send naked pictures of himself.

She also tricked the victim into going to an address to meet his supposed online date.

Cannell admitted setting up the fake accounts in the other girl’s name, pretending to be her, repeatedly sending the young man messages in her name and requesting photos of his private parts.

She pled guilty to arranging to meet him, inducing him to send intimate pictures, persuading him to go to a meet-up place and blackmailing him out of £100.

The con artist also admitted causing the girl she impersonated to be detained and interviewed by the police.

Cannell will be sentenced next month.

Sentencing has been deferred for the preparation of a social work report and restriction of liberty assessment.