A married Perth churchgoer has claimed he inadvertently sent a sexual video to a woman he met through Gumtree.
Harrison Koroma, Pullar Terrace, admitted sending a sexual message and videos to the woman but claimed he thought she was someone else.
Koroma had attained the woman’s email address after buying a TV from her that was put up for sale on the classifieds website.
The 35-year-old had been sending similar sexual messages to consenting females and he claimed he got the complainer’s email address mixed up with their email addresses.
Depute Fiscal Bill Kermode told Perth Sherif Court that it was the Crown’s position that Koroma had not sent the messages by accident.
Solicitor Cheryl McKnight said her client had been sending these types of messages to consenting females prior to the offending images.
She said: “He had been keeping the consensual messages from his wife. He was getting replies from consenting women.
“He inadvertently sent the messages to the woman. He is a married, church-going man who is extremely embarrassed by what has occurred.”
Mrs McKnight added that Koroma’s wife remains supportive of him.
Sheriff Fiona Tait heard that the Tay Project, the intervention programme for adults who have been convicted of sexual offences, did not believe they have any requirement to work with the accused.
Sheriff Tait ordered Koroma to complete a community payback order that included 160 hours unpaid work.
She also ordered Koroma to forfeit his phone and SIM card related to the offence and placed him on the sex offenders register for five years.
Koroma admitted that, between April 28 2014 and May 27 2014, at an address in Pullar Terrace or elsewhere unknown, he intentionally sent a sexual written communication to a woman in that he communicated via social media messages of an indecent and sexual nature.
Koroma also pled guilty that he intentionally caused the woman to look at a sexual image by sending videos of an indecent and sexual nature.