The Fife Rapist, Joshua Adams, wept upon being confronted for filming a sleeping woman in a state of undress before sexually abusing her at a residence in Rosyth, a court has been informed.
Joshua Adams clandestinely shot film of a 15-year-old girl at a different location in the town.
The video, lasting about four minutes, focusses on the child’s posterior and genital region.
The adult victim discovered the videos on Joshua Adams’ phone.
Joshua Adams, 26, was registered as a sex offender after confessing to two charges at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.
Joshua Adams, a chef from Fife as per social media, confessed to digitally invading the vagina of his adult victim.
He additionally pleaded guilty to engaging in threatening or abusive conduct, likely to induce fear or alarm, by recording the adolescent girl on a mobile device and focussing in on her lower body.
Prosecutor Sarah Smith informed the court that the woman discovered a film of herself slumbering face down on a bed, attired solely in her bra and knickers, following a night out.
She subsequently discovered a second video footage from that same evening.
The fiscal depute stated: ‘In this video, the accused enters the bed with the complainer and records her body before he displaces her trousers, continuing to film’. The video subsequently ceases.
The fiscal stated that the lady discovered a third film of another female seated on a kitchen countertop, where Joshua Adams had “covertly recorded her, repeatedly zooming in and concentrating on her lower body, genital, and buttocks area.”
Ms. Smith stated that the video had a duration of three minutes and forty-eight seconds.
The woman documented the third video on her own phone but did not capture the recordings she had viewed of herself, the court was informed.
Joshua Adams was subsequently confronted regarding the tape and proceeded to weep and express remorse.
The prosecutor stated that he informed the woman he had “digitally penetrated” her after ceasing the recording of the second video in which she was asleep.
Ms. Smith stated that the woman neither consented to being recorded nor to being penetrated while she was asleep.
The woman subsequently reported the incident to the police.
Ms. Smith stated that the second girl informed the police she would have been 15 years old when the video of her was recorded.
Sheriff Steven Borthwick postponed sentencing until July 28 to acquire background information, and Adams’ bail was extended in the interim.
Joshua Adams, whose residence cannot be disclosed for legal reasons, will be added to the sex offenders registry.
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