A VILE paedophile pensioner targeted a ten-year-old girl – despite bail conditions banning him from contact with children.
William Main, from Plains, was awaiting sentence after being trapped by a vigilante sting when he beeped his car horn and waved to a youngster outside a school.
Main, 67, of Kintyre Crescent, appeared from custody at Hamilton Sheriff Court last week.
He admitted breaching bail conditions by approaching the girl on October 8.
Main had appeared at the same court in September.
On that occasion he admitted arranging to meet up for sex with a person he believed to be a 13-year-old girl who was, in fact, a member of a vigilante group.
Main also admitted sending indecent messages and images to this person.
The sting, by the group Maximum Exposure UK, happened between November 25 and 30 last year.
He was arrested after vigilantes turned up at his then home in Motherwell.
By September this year, Main was living in Wishaw, but he has changed address
again.
Referring to the sting, prosecutor Jennifer McLaren said a member of the vigilante group operated an online profile under the name of a girl purporting to be aged 13.
Main made contact with her, asking if she “fancied a sugar daddy”.
During subsequent online chats, he asked repeatedly if they could meet up and offered £60 if she would send him a picture of her naked or in her underwear.
Main told her: “Stop playing games. Be daddy’s little girl.”
He asked if she would go to bed with him and suggested “having fun in the back of my car”.
Main added: “I’ll try to make you excited with my wandering hands.”
But he warned ‘Katie’: “Don’t be telling anyone. You are young and I am old, after all. We don’t want trouble.”
Main then sent the girl a video showing a female performing a sex act.
Ms McLaren said a meeting was arranged for November 30, but instead members of the vigilante group arrived at Main’s home.
The prosecutor added: “Main told the police he was planning to meet the girl for a kiss and a cuddle.
“He thought in his mind she was older and was leading him on by saying she was 13.”
Main, who has been in custody since his arrest in October, will be sentenced on all charges on December 8.
