Man, 21, ignored ban as he tried to entice boys into his home

A FIFE paedophile tried to lure two schoolboys to his home.

Despite being banned from unsupervised contact with under-16s, Jordan Stenhouse, 21, approached the boys – aged 12 and 13 – and invited them to his home. One of the boys informed his mother and police were called.

Police had earlier discovered images of child sexual abuse on phones owned by Stenhouse, including two at category A – the most serious.

In relation to images found on Stenhouse’s phones, fiscal depute Claire Bremner told Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court a check of the phone had revealed internet search terms including “young naked boys”.

The phone was later found to have 25 images depicting the sexual abuse of children aged three to eight.

On another occasion officers found him in possession of a mobile phone he had failed to reveal. Forensic examination of this phone found 61 images.

Stenhouse, a prisoner at Perth, admitted downloading indecent images of children at an address in Den Walk, Buckhaven between November 5 and 7 2019.

He further admitted conducting himself in a disorderly manner by approaching two boys on Leven’s Shorehead on November 11 last year, breaching a bail order put in place at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court on February 24 2019.

Approaching the boys breached the sexual harm prevention order imposed at Kirkcaldy in August 2018.

Stenhouse further breached the order at his home in Buckhaven on February 21 last year by failing to tell officials that he had a secret mobile phone capable of accessing the internet.

Sheriff Jamie Gilchrist deferred sentence until next month.