Former kid's DJ coerced children as young as 13 into sending explicit images

A former children’s DJ is facing life in prison after a court heard he is “a potentially dangerous person with a sexual preoccupation with children”.

Logan Donald, 21, was remanded in custody on Wednesday and sent to the High Court for the possible imposition of an Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR).

Donald used to host regular discos for kids and perform for thousands of children across central Scotland.

He was reportedly sacked by D3mon Discos in Falkirk after he was unmasked as a child sex offender in 2023.

He pleaded guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court that year to targeting three 13-year-olds over social media in 2020 and coercing them to send him explicit images by threatening to kill himself if they did not comply.

He used jam to fake an injury.

He was placed on the sex offenders’ register and managed by the Forth Valley Sex Offender Policing Unit.

On Wednesday, Stirling Sheriff Court heard that despite the Edinburgh order, it was less than a year before he began targeting another teenage girl, who told him truthfully she was 14.

Prosecutor Rachel Wallace said between January and June 2024, Donald, then turning 19, frequently exchanged sexual messages and images with the schoolgirl.

She considered herself in an “on-off relationship” with him. He threatened to harm himself if she did not send intimate images of herself.

He used several different devices to contact her – including an Xbox and a Playstation.

Ms Wallace said: “The complainer’s mother was aware that she had started speaking to a boy online, though believed it to be platonic.

“When she found out he was 19, she asked her daughter to cut contact, though was aware that she had not done so.

“The mother was present during a phone call between the complainer and the accused where the accused said that he didn’t have any social media.

“The mother found this strange, and asked her daughter for his name.

“She then searched this on Google and found articles about his previous conviction.”

She reported the matter to the police.

On December 18, 2024, Donald’s then-home address in Stenhousemuir was searched and on various devices, police found more than 300 child sex abuse videos – 179 of the most serious kind – and over 450 sex abuse images of children. Some of the children were as young as two.

Donald pled guilty to communicating sexually with a 14-year-old girl – said to live in England – and downloading child sex abuse images. The offences spanned January 16, 2024 to December 18, 2024.

The court heard he had been assessed as a “potentially dangerous person with a sexual preoccupation with children”.

Solicitor Ken Dalling, defending, said Logan was “an immature young man who feels more comfortable in the company of people who are of an older-child type age”.

Sheriff Keith O’Mahony said Logan had ignored restrictions on computer use imposed on him after the 2003 offence to commit a crime of “a manipulative nature”.

He said: “He made threats to self-harm if certain images were not provided.”

Sheriff O’Mahony said he considered that the criteria for imposing an Order for Lifelong Restriction on Donald might be met.

He said: “In preparing for today’s court I reviewed all the paperwork and approached this case from the perspective that I myself would be imposing sentence – but as I read deeper I became more and more concerned.

“Perhaps the most worrying factor is the current risk assessment, that Mr Donald is ‘well above average risk of sexual re-offending’. He is still at an age where he would be attractive to those who might become victims to him.”

Sheriff O’Mahony said Donald’s defence had pointed to a number of measures the sheriff court could have imposed, including an extended sentence or a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

He said: “They are all short-term powers. I don’t think I could impose them and have comfort they would be sufficient to protect the public from Mr Donald in the future.”

Revoking bail, he added that if High Court did not want to impose an OLR, it could impose a different sentence.

Logan showed no emotion as he was handcuffed and led to the cells.

If an OLR is imposed by the High Court, Logan could be held in prison for as long as is necessary before he is deemed no longer a public danger.