A Scots pervert caught accumulating baby abuse photographs over eight years confessed to cops about his sick “sexual need” towards younger women.
David Ritchie was snared after police raided his Edinburgh dwelling below warrant and seized a number of digital units.
The 45-year-old instantly admitted to officers he’d “developed a sexual curiosity in females aged 12 to fifteen”, a court docket heard.
Ritchie informed how he’d trawl the web for twisted photographs of children posing in underwear.
Officers additionally discovered Class A photographs displaying victims being sexually abused by adults.
Ritchie appeared on the metropolis’s sheriff court docket on Tuesday and admitted possessing indecent photographs of kids at his Leith handle between April 24 2012 and October 22 2020.
Fiscal depute Jennifer McLaren informed how police acquired intelligence that baby abuse imagery was being downloaded at Ritchie’s property.
Ms McLaren stated they obtained a warrant and carried out a swoop at 7.30am on October 22 2020, discovering Ritchie alone at dwelling.
The court docket heard objects have been seized, together with two laptops, a desk pc and server, and Ritchie was arrested.
Ms McLaren stated Ritchie was quizzed by cops and “said he’d developed a sexual curiosity in females aged 12 to fifteen” and admitted his “sexual need in the direction of youngsters on this age vary”.
The prosecutor stated 756 Class C abuse photographs have been discovered on the units, the place kids have been bare or semi-naked, together with two at Class A.
She stated the photographs have been all nonetheless accessible on the computer systems.
Defence agent Kevin Connor stated Ritchie had possessed “nonetheless photographs, no movies” and “made a full admission to police”.
Sheriff Kenneth Campbell KC deferred sentence on Ritchie till November for reviews.
The sheriff positioned Ritchie on the intercourse offenders register on an interim foundation till the subsequent listening to.