PERVERT WHO EXPOSED HIMSELF TO SCHOOLGIRLS GIVEN PROBATION DESPITE ANGER FROM PARENTS
ANGRY parents have hit out after a 'pervert' who exposed himself to school kids walked free from court.Kevin McDonald, a worker for the homeless, tailed young girls in his car near secondary schools - while naked from the waist down.
The married man was reported to police after the youngsters he targeted noticed he was wearing no trousers or underwear.
He was remanded in custody late last year after admitting to charges of public indecency and breach of the peace.
When he appeared for sentencing at Glasgow Sheriff Court last week it was heard he had been suffering from stress at the time of the offences.
Sheriff Fiona Reith QC decided not to jail McDonald and instead put him on probation for three years.
The decision angered parents of the young victims who branded the sentence as a `let-off`.
One parent told the Post: `We are not happy.
Nothing was said about how traumatised the girls were.
[The sheriff] was saying he was under stress - who hasn't been under stress but you don't go out and do that.
What would he have done next?` McDonald first struck on September 14 last year when a member of staff at a school in the Knightswood area noticed him in his car naked from the waist down.
Three girls - aged 12 and 13 - were then heading back to the same school a short time later when McDonald wolf-whistled at them from his vehicle.
The court heard he pulled up beside them and shouted: `Let me see your panties`.
The frightened trio fled before reporting the incident.
A week later, two 17-year-old schoolgirls spotted McDonald semi-naked in his green Vauxhall Corsa car as he drove slowly past them in the Dowanhill area of Glasgow.
Kay Potter, prosecuting, told the court: `One of the girls noticed that the driver was wearing no trousers or underwear.
The girls were certainly concerned enough to report the matter to their school.` Twisted McDonald then targeted two more girls - aged 15 and 16 - later that afternoon by appearing to take pictures of them with his mobile phone and blowing them a kiss when he was spotted.
Police traced the accused and after initially denying involvement, he confessed.
The court heard last week that McDonald had been suffering from stress at the time and had turned to alcohol.
He had been employed by Glasgow City Council as a community homeless worker based in Dunkenny Square, Drumchapel, but is thought to have now lost his job.
Sheriff Reith said she felt the public interest would be `best served` by McDonald being put on three years probation.
She also ordered that he undertake a sex offenders' programme and alcohol counselling.
McDonald was also banned from working with children or vulnerable adults and was ordered not to have unsupervised contact with children under 16 and was placed on the sex offenders' register for the next three years.
Outside court the father of one of the schoolgirls said: `It is a let off and we are disgusted as he should have been jailed.`
