Two bank workers jailed for abusing baby girl

TWO bank workers who sexually abused a one-yearold girl after embarking on a sordid affair have been jailed.

David Harper, 36, began a fling with married Jennifer Maguire before hatching a plot to abuse the infant.

He began encouraging Maguire, 31, to take photos and footage of herself sexually assaulting the child before sending them to him.

The pair began a relationship in 2012 while working at the Bank of Scotland in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, and would have sex in the office when other colleagues were not there.

Their crimes were uncovered by bank bosses following a probe into claims Harper had been harassing another female employee.

At Hamilton Sheriff Court, Harper was jailed for fourand-a-half years and Maguire was ordered to be held for three years.

They both admitted a charge of sexual assault on a child while Harper, of Uddingston, also admitted making indecent photographs of children and threatening to publish private photographs of another woman. Maguire, of Blantyre, admitted a charge of distributing or showing indecent photographs.

Fiscal depute Natalie Henderson said: “Jennifer Maguire committed the sexual acts and recorded them and sent them to David Harper. The accused Harper accepts that he invited her to do this and she agreed.”

Officers found 9,870 images of children and videos on Harper’s laptop.