Warning: Distressing.
A vile paedophile who forced 12-year-old girls to perform degrading sex acts has been jailed for a decade.
“Cruel and manipulative” Randall Scott Waters, 52, posed as a 16-year-old boy on Instagram to groom the girls after being released from prison, the District Court of South Australia heard.
The sex offender, who was living in his parents’ granny flat, convinced the girl that she was her boyfriend and asked her to send naked pictures and videos to him, The Advertiser reported.
He also started chatting to two of the girl’s friends, who were also in Year 7 at school.
Waters forced the three girls to perform disgusting sex acts on themselves and each other, including bestiality.
Much of the offending is too graphic to publish.
Randall Scott Waters, 52, was jailed for 10 years.
Waters sent child porn to one of his victims to describe what he wanted her to do on video, and got her to send him her underwear.
He blackmailed the three girls by telling them he would send their images to their families, friends and post them online if they didn’t comply with his sick demands.
Waters was eventually arrested and police found a stash of nearly 2000 child porn files on his phones.
Waters, of Hackham West in southern Adelaide, pleaded guilty to multiple offences, including possessing child exploitation material and inciting an indecent act by a child.
Astonishingly, it emerged in court that Waters had earlier been jailed for recording himself abusing a child but was deemed to be at “low risk” of reoffending after he completed a rehabilitation program.
Judge Emily Telfer said Waters’ offending was “cruel, manipulative and exploitative”.
“You and people like you are the reason that parents cannot allow their children to independently explore the internet and the world of social media.”
Waters was sentenced to 10 years and seven months in jail, and will be eligible for parole in 2030.