Soldier asked for teenage girls' pictures
Corporal Gavin Booth, 30, based at Redford Barracks in Edinburgh with 3 Rifles, admitted possessing and distributing images of children, sending text messages to teenage girls which were both "sexual and lewd" in nature and contacting under-age girls online.
Booth pleaded guilty to four charges which happened between June 2007 and August 2009, but not guilty to making his own indecent images.
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Booth's lawyer Duncan Hughes requested a social inquiry report, and Sheriff James Scott asked for a statement from Booth's commanding officer.