School worker jailed after taking picture of six-year-old girl naked

A school worker who abducted a six-year-old girl, stripped her and took a photograph of her naked has been jailed for three years.

James Moran, 32, silently led the child to a store cupboard at her school as she made her way back from the toilet.

When she refused his demand to remove her clothes he took hold of her and stripped her naked apart from her socks and shoes.

The child grabbed her clothes back from Moran as he used both hands to take a picture of her with his mobile phone.

Sick Moran fled and the child returned to her class where she told her teacher of her ordeal and later pointed out her attacker in the school saying “it was him”.

Moran,ofdalmarnock,glasgow, pleaded guilty to abducting the schoolgirl on 2 May this year at a primary school in the city. He also admitted sexually assaulting her by causing her to participate in sexual activity, forcing her to remove her clothes and underwear and taking a naked picture her.

Yesterday sheriff Alan Mackenzie sentenced Moran to three years in jail and put him on the Sex Offenders’ register indefinitely.

Passing sentence he told Moran: “The crimes you committed involves a six-yearold child in an environment where she ought to have been safe and secure. One where her parents anticipated she would be.

“I consider that the offences are of the utmost gravity, I am in no doubt as has been recognised, no other disposal other than a custodial one is appropriate.”

Glasgow Sheriff Court heard Moran was employed by Cordia to carry out work in the school and had been working for four or five years.

Staff said the role was “limited to school crossings, moving furniture and litter picking” and he had no direct interaction with children.

He was described as a “loner” whohad“limitedcommunication skills”.

The court heard she immediately told her teacher what happened to her and that was a man she had seen in the school before.

Her parents and police were called and while showing them where she had been taken by Moran the girl saw him.

She pointed and clearly said “it was him” but he didn’t react and walked to the janitor’s office.

Moran’s phone was examined and showed a blurred image, as if taken quickly, of a naked child in a room with boxes.

Defence lawyer Bill Mccluskey said his client is described as “painfully shy”.