A former RAF serviceman who posed as a film stuntman to persuade a Tayside woman to make videos of her sitting on babies for his gratification has been put behind bars and faces a potential life sentence.
Andrew Kerr, 36, incited Gemma McFee to carry out the assaults on the 17-month-old children, with promises of payment.
Kerr also tried to get a second woman to carry out similar abuse by sitting or standing on a child.
He was also found to have had child abuse images on devices at RAF Lossiemouth in Moray and RAF Akrotiiri in Cyprus.
Kerr, now of John Street, Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, admitted the offences in July at Dundee Sheriff Court.
Forensic psychologist Dr Lorraine Johnstone concluded Kerr poses a high risk to the public, with potentially fatal consequences.
He had remained on bail until Wednesday, when he appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh, which has greater sentencing powers.
A judge ordered he should be held in prison in Greenock while a full risk assessment report is prepared, which can lead to the making of an Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR).
Lord Harrower said he was satisfied, based on the information before him, the risk criteria may be met.
Public safety assessment before release
If the court elects to impose an OLR, the judge will impose a minimum prison term the offender must serve and any decision to release Kerr will be taken by parole authorities using public safety considerations.
If freed, he will be subject to monitoring and supervision.
Defence solicitor advocate Ann Ogg argued the risk criteria were not met and an OLR was not the appropriate disposal.
She said he was a first offender with no reports of concerns about his behaviour in the past.
She said the court was faced with “a very isolated set of circumstances” with no repetition of events following the offending, which ended in 2018.
The court heard there were conflicting reports from experts on Kerr and Ms Ogg asked to have the opportunity to instruct a report from a defence forensic psychologist.
Posed as stuntman before sick requests
Kerr was posing online as a stuntman when he met had met Gemma McFee, who sent him seven videos of the child abuse on Facebook.
He paid her to stand on him under the guise of it being a stunt for a film.
He encouraged the woman to sit on the children in return for payment and gave her detailed instructions.
When the Arbroath woman sent him the first of the videos he messaged her back: “Brilliant, he loves it by the look of it.”
During the videos, the youngsters appeared to be laughing and giggling at the beginning of the footage but became distressed and were crying out.
Kerr admitted inciting McFee to assault the victims between June 17 and 21 in 2018.
He also admitted attempting to incite a second woman to carry out an assault by sitting or standing on a child in Elgin, Moray.
He further admitted making indecent images of children at the RAF bases between 2012 and 2018.
