Edinburgh man jailed for sending sexual images to schoolgirl

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 30 Oct, 16:52 · Archive

A 23-year-old Edinburgh man has been jailed for sending sexual images to a schoolgirl via social media.

Declan Stoddart, 23, from Edinburgh's Southhouse area, was jailed for 160 days on 30 October after pleading guilty to causing a child to look at a sexual image and making sexual comments to her. The offences occurred between 9 and 16 January last year. Stoddart sent pictures of an adult penis to the schoolgirl via TikTok before moving their conversations to WhatsApp, accompanying the images with messages including 'You want my baby?' and 'If you do get pregnant no one will have to know'. The girl's mother discovered the content on her daughter's phone and alerted police, leading to Stoddart's arrest and charge.

At Edinburgh Sheriff Court, Sheriff Colm Dempsey deemed the offences sufficiently serious to impose a ten-year sexual harm prevention order alongside the jail term and seven-year sex offenders register placement. The 160-day sentence runs consecutively to a 24-month prison term imposed earlier in 2024 for sending obscene footage of a man with an animal, along with images of his penis, to two boys aged 11 and 12. Stoddart had groomed those children through Xbox gaming.

How it is being reported

• Edinburgh man jailed for sending sexually-explicit images to schoolgirl on social media appsStoddart sent disturbing and sexually-explicit images and video to childrenEdinburgh Evening News · 30 Oct, 16:27
• Edinburgh Xbox pervert jailed again after sending depraved images to schoolgirlHe was jailed and placed on the sex offenders register.Edinburgh Live · 30 Oct, 15:42

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