January 2016 Man jailed for ordering the sexual abuse of Aberdeen child so he could watch online A child sex offender has been handed a six year extended sentence after he ordered the abuse of a nine-year-old girl while he watched online. Repeat offender Jon Walker appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court yesterday where he admitted carrying out three charges against the primary school girl over the period of a month. The court heard Walker, of 48b Leven Road, Kenoway, was acting alongside child abuser Shannon Main when he committed the offences between May and June 2013. Walker induced the child to remove her clothing while he watched on the webcam. He also instructed Main to touch her intimately and kiss the child while he touched his own private parts. Walker further admitted receiving an indecent image of a child from Main and asking for more to be sent. He also pled guilty to exposing his private parts to the child on camera while she watched from her home in Aberdeen. The court heard that Walker, a serial sex offender, was only caught when police seized his computer in relation to another matter. He is currently serving the remainder of an extended sentence which is not due to expire until May 2018. Yesterday Sheriff Graham Buchanan sentenced the 25-year-old to three years behind bars and gave him a further three year extended sentence in order to protect the public. He will also be on the sex offenders’ register for life. Last year Main, 20, was sentenced to two years’ detention for forcing the girl to take off her clothes and pose for men online. At the time of her sentence Sheriff William Summers described her actions as “appalling” when she admitted the sexual assault and making and distributing indecent images of children. When Main appeared in court, solicitor Stewart Murray said her actions were “not sexually motivated” and that she had been driven by the “desire to please” a man she had met online. The court heard she had become involved in a virtual relationship and that Main had claimed there had been a “degree of coercion” from him. He said: “Her offending seems to be based on her desire to feel affection from third parties in her life. “She was more scared that she was going to lose the affection of that person and that she was motivated in a desire not to lose that person.” October 2013 Jail for Fife pervert who told 12-year-old girl age is ‘just a number’ A Fife man who sent sexually explicit messages to a 12-year-old girl has been jailed. Jon McDonald McClure Walker, 23, a prisoner at Perth, had told the girl that age was “just a number” and sent her a photograph of his genitals. He appeared for sentence at Cupar Sheriff Court having previously admitted sending messages to the girl between February 2 and May 15 this year at High Street, Newburgh. He had also admitted possessing images or pseudo images of children. Indecent images had been found on his two laptops and a memory card. These ranged from the lowest to the highest level of severity. Defence agent Robin Beattie told the court that Walker had been assessed as at moderate to high risk of reoffending. He said the offences were the result of his client’s “immaturity, boredom and lack of awareness” and being in custody since June had given him a scare. Mr Beattie said Walker had a fiancee whom he had not seen since the matter had come to light. They still intended to wed. “He has no intention of reoffending,” he said. Sheriff Charles Macnair told Walker that he had considered remitting the case to the High Court but had decided to sentence him himself. He said: “At the time of these offences you were on probation in relation to offences committed against children. You were subject to a number of restrictions and you breached your probation order on a number of occasions. “You told your supervising officer that you were not accessing the internet for this sort of purpose. “You then went on the internet and you found this girl, whom you knew to be under 13. You sent her a picture and then you sent a number of messages. “These could best be described as grooming offences, in my view.” Walker was sentenced to 17 months in jail, backdated to when he was taken into custody. He was also placed on licence for three years after his release and placed on the sex offenders register for an indefinite period. The sheriff also imposed a sexual offences protection order. Walker is also banned from contacting under-16s online or having any contact with a child without adult supervision. September 2013 Man who sent explicit text images told 12-year-old girl ‘age is only a number’ A Fife man sent sexually explicit messages to a 12-year-old girl and told her age was “only a number”, Cupar Sheriff Court has heard. Jon McDonald McClure Walker, 23, described as a prisoner at Perth, admitted that between February 2 2013 and May 15 this year he sent the girl a photograph of his genitals at Tower Well, High Street, Newburgh, as well as other sexually explicit messages. He also pleaded guilty to being in possession of indecent images or pseudo images of children at the same address on June 26 this year. The court heard after receiving an indecent message, the girl responded to Walker asking him if he knew how old she was to which he replied: “Yes, and I don’t care. Age is only a number.” Police were called after the child’s mother became aware of the messages and a search warrant was obtained to search Walker’s Newburgh home. Further indecent images were found on a laptop owned by Walker, including 124 at level 1 of the SAP Scale and four at level 2. Police also found 18 videos, of which six were level 4 and one was level 5. Another laptop and memory card were also found at the address which contained 39 further indecent images at level 1. Defence agent Robin Beattie said Walker, who has a previous sex offence conviction, was “very apologetic” and “accepted full responsibility”. Sheriff Charles Macnair deferred sentence until October 3 for reports and remanded Walker in custody. November 2012 Child molester Jon Walker’s past ‘comes back to haunt him’ A Fife man told police his past was “coming back to haunt” him when he was arrested for sexually assaulting two girls aged seven and eight. Jon Walker’s crimes were committed more than five years ago — and only came to light when his traumatised victims told a school teacher “bad things” had happened to them in the past. The 20-year-old, of Swan Place, Glenrothes, admitted repeatedly assaulting the two girls — who cannot be named for legal reasons — between April 2004 and June 2005. Depute fiscal Lesley Smith explained how the accused repeatedly touched the girls. “This happened on a regular basis,” Ms Smith told Cupar Sheriff Court. “The girls did not understand the accused’s behaviour toward them. “They did not like it, but did not understand that it was wrong.” The depute fiscal said the girls — who were friends and classmates — only relatively recently plucked up the courage to tell a teacher what had happened. “They told a teacher that bad things had happened to them and that they had been touched in a sexual way,” Ms Smith explained. “The accused was subsequently traced and, when detained by police, said, ‘This will be my past coming back to haunt me’.” Solicitor Rosie Scott said Walker now regretted his actions and realised how serious the offences were. “Mr Walker accepts what has been said, and his position is that at the time he did not really appreciate that it was wrong,” she told the court. “He does now realise that it was in fact very wrong. “He regrets what the girls have been through and, by pleading guilty at this stage, has spared them from coming to court.” Ms Scott pointed out that, although the accused was “much older” than his helpless victims, he was a relatively young teenager himself at the time of the offences. “He has never been in trouble before, but fully accepts and admits his part in this,” the defence agency added. Sheriff Charles Macnair deferred sentence for reports until May 12. In the meantime, he ordered that Walker’s name be added to the sex offenders register.