Man posed as young girl so children would send naked pictures

Perv caught with sick images and videos

APERV was caught with nearly six hours of indecent videos of children in his ill mother’s home. Alexander Cuthbertson, 49, was caught with 1899 images overall at the flat in Lambhill. He even created fake social media accounts to communicate with kids between March 2007 and January 2020.

Cuthbertson, posing as a girl, repeatedly asked for naked pictures of victims as young as 13.

He pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to taking or permitting to be taken indecent images of kids.

He also admitted distributing images and sending written sexual communication to children.

The court heard police raided the property on Skirsa Street where Cuthbertson lives with his mum who suffers from dementia. Officers seized two iPhones and a desktop computer from Cuthbertson’s bedroom.

A total of 1899 indecent pictures and videos of male and female children as young as two were recovered. Prosecutor Amy Hunter told the court that the videos collected played for five hours and 51 minutes.

Cuthbertson, using the name Lucy, created bogus social network accounts, even pretending to be a 14-year-old on one occasion.

He communicated with at least three underage teenagers on Snapchat and requested naked images from them.

It was also revealed Cuthbertson sent images of children through Snapchat and Kik Messenger to a user named “MysteryPerson81”.

Sentence was deferred until March for background reports by Sheriff Joseph Platt.

Cuthbertson, still of the same address, was put on the sex offenders register meantime.