online of local schoolgirls and encouraged their sexual abuse was snared by an undercover cop.Stuart Betts, 49, believed he was sharing messages with a fellow predator.Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard on Tuesday how Betts suggested the two girls be sexually attacked in their beds by a “gang”.But he was actually in contact with a Police Scotland online undercover operative known as “Steve D”, who was attempting to gather intelligence against adults seeking to sexually abuse children.Last June, Steve D was contacted by a user with the name “Bi Perv M”, later discovered to be Betts, in a channel called Rabbit.Betts sent the officer a “non-indecent” photo of the two children and an adult, and disclosed his sexual interest in the kids who he said.
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