A hospital porter caught with donkey porn claimed he had been sent it on a Facebook chat group he shared with his fellow countrymen.
Plamen Petkov also had extreme porn featuring adult men engaging in sexual activity with cows and child abuse images featuring new born babies.
Petkov, 33, from Dundee, told a court he had only joined the chat group with 150 other Bulgarians to share “funny photographs and videos”.
He was placed on the Sex Offenders Register after he admitted two charges relating to illicit material found on his devices.
Home raided by police
Fiscal depute Michael Sweeney told Perth Sheriff Court: “He was employed as a hospital porter.
“He had a partner and a four-month-old daughter at the time.
“Confidential information was received by the police indicating that indecent images of children were held on devices at his flat.
“A search warrant was granted.
“A systematic search was carried.
“During the search a number of electronic devices were recovered.”
Mr Sweeney said material was found showing a three-year-old boy being forced to have sex with a woman, along with images of babies aged from zero to six months.
“They had been received through Facebook Messenger.
“The platform Viber had been used to receive two extreme porn videos.
“One showed a male engaged in sexual activity with a donkey and another showing an adult male in sexual activity with cows.”
Denied interest in children
Petkov told police: “I used to be in these stupid Facebook chats, so I don’t know if somebody sent it to me.”
Mr Sweeney said: “He stated he had been placed into two group chats by a friend.
“These largely contained the same people – approximately 150 other Bulgarian nationals the accused did not know.
“It shared funny photographs and videos other users had posted into the group chat and automatically downloaded them onto the device.
“He said he did not know what the content was when he viewed the images and said he left the group due to these posts.
“He denied having sexual interest in children.”
Sheriff William Wood granted Petkov bail and his case was continued for the preparation of social work and Tay Project reports.
