A Dundee pervert arrived with a tent, condoms and sex toys to meet a “schoolgirl” he was grooming.
45-year-old Duncan McLaren was actually messaging a decoy on Kik and said she was old enough have sex and discussed lewd acts with her.
After arranging to meet the girl, who he believed was just 14, at a city Lidl store, he was “restrained” on the ground by a mob of vigilante paedophile hunters.
Currently remanded, McLaren will be sentenced next month after reports have been prepared.
Grotesque messages
Fiscal depute Christine Allan explained McLaren communicated with what he thought was a 14-year-old schoolgirl on chat sides Badoo and Kik.
In fact, he was speaking with an adult posing as a child.
He immediately told her he had a “nine-inch monster to play with” and the account replied, saying she was 14.
His sexual chat continued and the decoy reminded him she was 14.
McLaren proceeded to send the account explicit photographs and said: “This is my girlfriend in the shower.”
He said he hoped he and the decoy could perform a sex act on the woman together.
McLaren said: “It’s ok, I’ll show you, everyone has a first time for everything.”
He went on to say: “In every country it’s a different law but it’s made by a man to control people and not based on biology.
“I’d love to be your first.
“When you’re past puberty, you are an adult.”
He then asked her to remove her underwear and added: “I don’t have a problem with your age but society does sadly.”
Meeting
McLaren continued to send filth and arranged to meet the “girl”, initially at the Riverside Tesco in Dundee. and after several location changes, at the Lidl on South Ward Road, after asking for a video call.
He arrived on a pushbike and vigilantes from paedophile hunting group Maximum Exposure Scotland confronted him.
They restrained him as a passing police officer intervened.
Officers attended and found McLaren had a bag with three phones, two condoms, a tent and sex toys inside.
Admission
McLaren was brought from prison to Forfar Sheriff Court last week and placed on the Sex Offenders Register.
He pled guilty to an amended charge of communicating indecently over social media on various occasions between August 12 and 17 2019.
McLaren also admitted missing a court hearing at Dundee Sheriff Court on October 4 last year.
Solicitor Doug McConnell said his client has Huntingdon’s Disease and no history of similar offending.
Sheriff Krista Johnston granted forfeiture of the phones and sex toys and further remanded McLaren until sentencing on May 16.
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