Donald Kerr was found to have stored more than ten hours of video "selfies" of young girls on his computer along with more than 1300 indecent images of children.
Kerr, who turned 48 on Tuesday, admitted posing as a teenage boy on the internet site Tagged.com so he could contact under age girls and groom them.
Fiscal depute Carol Whyte told Perth Sheriff Court: "Police received intelligence which led to a search of his home address. He was traced with his daughter."
She said Kerr immediately confessed to having illegal material on his computer when officers told him that his daughter would have been questioned about the material otherwise.
"He said there would be pictures on the computer tower that people had sent him, of naked girls of all ages. He said he had started by going on websites and looking at pornography and had just kept progressing to the next stage.
"He stated it was like a habit, an addiction, and he stated that he hadn't thought he would become something like that. He stated he just looked at pictures and nothing else.
"However, further investigations established that he had been communicating with a 15-year-old girl while posing as a 16-year-old youth called "Don".
Mrs Whyte said: "When asked about the ages of the people in the pictures, he stated he probably knew they were between '13 and whatever.' When asked how he knew the ages, he replied that they had told him.
"He confirmed he had taken pictures of other people and set up a profile pretending to be 16 years old. He confirmed he had used Tagged.com to chat to girls."
"The 15-year-old girl told officers she had communicated online with 'Don' between August and November 2011. The conversation had been general at first.
"But after two days he asked her to send pictures of herself in underwear or less, to speak to him on the webcam and to strip for him, to send a video showing her pleasuring herself and requested that she sleep with him."
Mrs Whyte told the court Kerr was found to have 237 different videos on his computer, with a running time of approximately ten hours in total. They included level four and five footage - the most graphic. He also had 1326 still images.
Kerr, Crammond Place, Perth, admitted that between August 1 and November 30, 2011 he intentionally sent sexual written communication to a 15-year-old girl.
He admitted asking her for sexually explicit pictures via webcam and asking her to meet him to have sexual intercourse.
He also admitted a second charge of having indecent images of children at his home between January 18 and June 27, 2012.
Solicitor John McLaughlin, defending, said Kerr had never actually met the girl he had groomed, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
Kerr's sentence was deferred for the preparation of reports and he was placed on the sex offenders register by sheriff Fiona Tait.
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