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A pensioner who made explicit sexual remarks to what he believed was a 14-year-old girl was snared by an adult from a paedophile hunter group who was posing as a teenager.
Inverness Sheriff Court was told that Duncan Moir, from Buckie, contacted the 'girl' calling herself 'Molly' on December 17, 2023.
The 72-year-old told the ‘girl’ his age and was informed that his contact was 14.
Fiscal depute Pauline Gair told Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald that Moir, of Bede Road, called the girl “baby, gorgeous, my dear girl, my beautiful gorgeous girl”.
Mrs Gair went on: "He asked her if she had a boyfriend and asked her for photographs of herself.
“The conversation became more sexualised."
The court heard that Moir said the girl made him "horny", asked about her private parts and what sex acts she knew about.
He also told her what acts he would like her to do to him, adding that he would keep her safe.
Moir also told her: "By the way, don’t tell anyone what I have been talking about or I would be in trouble."
At that stage, the decoy from online child abuse activist group 'Elite' informed another similar group in Scotland called 'Protecting Kids Scotland'.
They identified from screenshots where Moir lived and confronted him while live-streaming it online.
Moir admitted sexually communicating with what he thought was a 14-year-old girl between December 17, 2023, and March 16 last year.
Sentence was deferred until June 3 for a background report and an assessment for the sex offender's rehabilitation programme, 'Moving Forward to Change.'
Moir was also immediately placed on the Sex Offender's Register and his bail was continued.
However, Sheriff Macdonald warned him “all sentencing options are open to the court”.