A sadistic Glenmavis Paedophile, Gerard Buchanan, whose collection of child abuse photographs and films necessitated counselling for police personnel, has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Repeat offender Gerard Buchanan expressed to another individual with deviant inclinations his enjoyment of witnessing the torturing of infants and claimed that the internet is facilitating the emergence of Satan’s dominion.
A sheriff described the crime as “exceptionally horrific and depraved.”
Gerard Buchanan, 64, received a 20-year sexual harm prevention order prohibiting contact with children.
He confessed to obtaining and disseminating child sexual abuse photographs and owning extreme pornography depicting sexual acts between humans and animals.
The Airdrie Sheriff Court was informed that police officers conducted a raid at Buchanan’s residence in Brackenhirst Gardens, Glenmavis, in October of the previous year.
Over 1,200 images and videos of child sexual assault were discovered on two mobile phones, a laptop, and a tablet.
In addition to brutal sexual abuse, the material depicted what seemed to be deceased and disfigured infants.
In a reprehensible online conversation, Gerard Buchanan expressed to another individual with deviant inclinations: “I derive pleasure from witnessing the torture or harm of children or infants.”
The internet is a potent instrument for the dismantling of society, the erosion of familial values, the ascendancy of malevolence, and the establishment of disorder.
“I gave up on traditional morality long ago.”
Sarah Healing, prosecuting, told the court: “The material depicted horrific abuse and gore. Such was the depravity that cybercrime officers analysing the images required regular breaks and specialist counselling thereafter.”
When arrested Gerard Buchanan admitted to police officers that he was “deviant”.
In 2016 he was given a community payback order at Falkirk Sheriff Court for possessing and sharing child abuse images.
At that time it was said he had undergone rehabilitation and social workers deemed him at low risk of re-offending.
Referring to the latest charges, defence lawyer Jim Sloan said: “He is thoroughly ashamed of himself.
“He has an elderly mother in Falkirk whom he visited every day to look after. She is hurting due to his behaviour.
“He has brought shame upon his partner who had nothing to do with his offending.
“Regarding the online conversations with the other individual about babies, these seemed to go into fantasy land.
“A lot of the images were of young children, but he says he looked at them and deleted them as soon as he could. His main interest is in teenage children.
“Hopefully he has learned the lesson that this behaviour is unacceptable.”
Sheriff Derek Livingston said the online chats “indicate what pleasure he gets from seeing that sort of stuff”.
The sheriff imposed an eight-year extended sentence, meaning Gerard Buchanan will serve four years in prison before being supervised in the community for a similar period.
Sheriff Livingston told him: “The narration I heard in your case was uniquely horrendous and perverted.
“It’s clear from the number of images and online conversations that you were enthusiastic about possessing, downloading and distributing this material.
“The distress caused to those who appear in the videos and photos can only be imagined.”
The sheriff said a lengthy sexual harm prevention order was “appropriate and necessary” to protect the public.
It bans Gerard Buchanan from having contact with children under 16 and places restrictions on his internet use. He will also be on the sex offenders’ register for an indefinite period.
A neighbour said he was “shocked and appalled” by the extent of Buchanan’s depravity, adding: “He’s retired and seemed to live a quiet life. I hadn’t seen him for a while but had no idea he was in prison in connection with this case.”
Another neighbour said: “This is a quiet area and I would see him and his partner walking their dog.
“There are children around here and I’m not happy we didn’t know about his background.”
POLICE SCOTLAND HAS BRAVELY CHOSEN NOT TO RELEASE THE DANGEROUS PAEDOPHILE’S IMAGE SO GOOD LUCK SEEING HIM COMING
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