A teenage north-east rugby player has been placed on the sex offenders’ register after he admitted sending sexual messages to a schoolgirl on Facebook.
Dean Mutch sent the 13-year-old messages for the purpose of “obtaining sexual gratification” or causing her humiliation, alarm and distress.
The messages, which contained sexually explicit remarks, were sent from his home on Stewart Crescent in Kemnay between February and March last year.
Mutch also confessed to indecent communication with an older child over the same period.
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The 19-year-old Aberdeen Wanderers player previously pleaded guilty to the offences at Aberdeen Sheriff Court where he returned yesterday to be sentenced.
In a photograph on his Facebook page, he is wearing the rugby club strip and is standing next to an Aberdeen Wanderers RFC score board.
Sheriff Philip Mann placed him under supervision for three years and ruled that he had to undergo any programme he was ordered to by the social work department.
He also placed him on the sex offenders’ register for the same period.
Sheriff Man warned the teenager that a custodial sentence was likely if he failed to comply with the order.