An Arbroath father extorted nude photos from his own child, a court has heard.
The 36-year-old, who is employed at a local factory, sent his then-15-year-old daughter anonymous, threatening messages on Instagram, demanding to see her breasts.
The girl complied, unaware it was her own father blackmailing her.
The sex offender also had hundreds of child sexual abuse images and film on his iPhone and extreme pornographic photographs of animals in sexual activity with humans.
The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the child, appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court on Tuesday.
Extorted own daughter
Depute fiscal Lynne Mannion said police were tipped off about the images on January 26 2022 and visited the Arbroath family home on February 3 with a search warrant.
The man was already on his way to work and detectives caught up with him and recovered his iPhone.
Ms Mannion said 11 category A to C child abuse images were recovered, of girls aged 6 to 12 and he was arrested.
The phone was further examined and images of the man’s daughter were recovered.
The court heard he had contacted her on Instagram demanding “t**s” and sent her a second message saying he would “hurt her family” if she did not comply.
‘Moment of madness’
Facebook messages between the accused and his partner were also uncovered.
He told her he had asked for images of his daughter “in a moment of madness” and insisted it was not for “any kind of sexual attraction”.
A deeper probe of the phone by forensic officers uncovered a cache of 664 child sex abuse images, of all categories including the most serious kind.
The accused admitted possessing indecent images of children, extreme pornographic images involving animals and extorting his daughter between March 2020 and February 2022 at his home address in Arbroath.
Sheriff Jillian Martin-Brown deferred sentence for reports until May 31.
He was added to the Sex Offenders Register immediately.
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