A Perth man has been jailed for two years after admitting sending an indecent image to a 14-year-old boy.
Ian West, 50, also pleaded guilty to sending a large number of sexual messages to the boy over a 10-day period.
Sheriff Lindsay Foulis told Perth Sheriff Court yesterday that West’s actions had had a significant impact on the teenager’s life.
West, of Crammond Place, who admitted a further charge of making indecent photographs of children between 2013 and 2015, was also placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.
West admitted that between January 16 2013 and March 4 2015, at Crammond Place, he took or permitted to be taken or made indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children.
He also pleaded guilty that, on January 16 2013 at Crammond Place, he distributed or showed indecent photographs or pseudo- photographs of children.
West admitted a further charge that, between September 26 and October 6 2014, at Crammond Place, he intentionally caused an older child, aged 14, to look at a sexual image.
He also communicated indecently with the 14-year-old by sending him an indecent image and communicating with him using sexual language.
Sheriff Foulis said: “Over that period there were a considerable number of messages containing sexual language. You accept that over a two-year period you involved yourself in the preservation of indecent images of children. In dealing with this matter there is no doubt in my mind a custodial sentence is appropriate.”