Michael Elsender, a resident of Hawick, has been convicted at Jedburgh Sheriff Court for engaging in inappropriate communication with an individual he believed to be a 12-year-old girl, but was, in fact, an adult decoy.
Michael Elsender, aged fifty-four, communicated with an adult posing as a minor over the course of three weeks.
Michael Elsender engaged in inappropriate communication with a lady impersonating a 12-year-old child and made sexual solicitations.
He perpetrated the act at his residence on Glebe Mill Street, between May 5 and Sunday, May 26.
Michael Elsender was found guilty of a charge of causing a person pretending to be a child to receive a sexual communication.
Sentence was deferred until December 16 at Jedburgh Sheriff Court for the production of background reports.
He was also made subject to the notification requirements of the Sexual Offences Act – the length of the order to be determined at the sentencing diet.
UPDATE 21.12.24
A man from Hawick, Michael Elsender, who engaged in inappropriate communication with an individual he believed to be a 12-year-old girl, but was actually an adult decoy, has been placed on the sex offenders’ register for a duration of two years.
Fifty-four-year-old Michael Elsender communicated with an adult posing as a minor over a span of three weeks.
Michael Elsender engaged in inappropriate communication with a woman posing as a 12-year-old child and made sexual solicitations.
He perpetrated the act at his residence on Glebe Mill Street between May 5 and May 26.
Michael Elsender was convicted of the offence after a trial at Jedburgh Sheriff Court.
He received a community payback order for two years, accompanied by a supervision requirement, as an alternative to incarceration.
Michael Elsender was also subjected to the notification requirements of the Sexual Offences Act for a duration of two years.
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