March 2016
Man forced 12-year-old girl to do housework naked
A PERVERT who sexually tortured a young schoolgirl – forcing her to do housework naked – after meeting her mother online is facing a lengthy jail sentence.
Kenneth Larking carried out a series of horrific attacks on the girl, including whipping her and forcing her to do housework naked.
The man – who initially targeted the girl while her family attended church – also slapped and fondled her, forcing the child to wear lingerie.
The terrified schoolgirl – who was just 12 when the abuse started – broke down and confessed to her mother what had taken place in the home in Lasswade, Midlothian.
Disabled Larking, 40, appeared from custody in a wheelchair at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday, where he admitted the abuse.
Fiscal depute Kirsty Anderson told the court the girl was in Larking’s care at the time and that he had met her mother through an internet dating site in 2008.
Ms Anderson added the attacks started on a Sunday morning in 2012 while the girl’s family were worshipping at a church service.
The fiscal said: “The girl planned on joining her family at church but the accused told her she could not go.
“She was left alone with Mr Larkin and he told her to get completely naked, to go into the kitchen and wash the dishes naked. She did it out of fear.
“She stood at the sink crying while the accused put leather restraints on her wrists. He stood behind her and was naked and watched her washing the dishes.”
Ms Anderson said Larking took the terrified girl to another room, where he ordered her to lie across his legs as he sat on a sofa and slapped her bare bottom around 20 times.
The fiscal said the torture session lasted around two hours before Larking told the girl to get dressed and took her shopping.
The girl, who suffered bulimia as a result of the attacks, told her mother around August 2012.
Sheriff John Beckett remanded Larking in custody and placed him on the sex offenders register. Sentence was deferred to later this month.
Larking pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the girl by compelling her to remove her clothes, perform household tasks while naked, and place restraints on her wrists at a house in Lasswade, Midlothian in 2012
