SCOTLAND: Drag queen who co-authored ‘Trans Youth’ guide for LGBT charity jailed for distributing videos showing sexual abuse of newborn babies

A Scottish drag queen who co-authored a guide for ‘trans youth’ for a major LGBT charity has been convicted of distributing child pornography. Andrew Easton, from Kennethmont, Huntly, was spared an immediate prison sentence despite knowingly communicating with a 13-year-old boy online and asking him for indecent images.

Easton, 39, pleaded guilty in court this month to communicating online with someone he believed was a child, downloading indecent images of children and distributing indecent images of children. The sexual abuse material, which included images and videos, featured newborn babies, toddlers and pre-pubescent children. Easton was first caught by Scotland’s National Online Child Abuse Prevention (NOCAP) unit in an operation in September 2023 that identified his IP number. Police subsequently obtained a search warrant and raided Easton’s home.

In a Telegram chat labeled “Extra Excitement,” Easton collected 132 images and 1,119 videos featuring newborn babies and children up to the age of 10. Police discovered that Easton also had a chat log with a user claiming to be 13 years old; Easton referred to the user as “baby boy” and sent him pictures of his genitals. He also asked the user to call him “daddy.”

Easton appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on August 13 and did not deny downloading and sharing child pornography. However, despite his admission, he avoided jail and was instead sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid community service and three years’ supervision.

Easton was sentenced by Sheriff Morag McLaughlin, who told the court that Easton’s crimes “do not quite meet the threshold for a prison sentence.”

Although news of Easton’s conviction first broke on August 13, interest in his case has been renewed after journalist Marion Scott revealed that Easton had previously worked with LGBT Youth Scotland. The charity was exposed by Reduxx in 2022 for participating in the alleged sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of two underage boys who used their services.

According to Scott, Easton co-authored the charity’s ‘coming out guide’ for ‘trans young people’, which was distributed to state schools across the country and is still available on East Ayrshire Council’s website. The guide, which LGBT Youth Scotland services heavily promote, ‘looks at the different stages of the coming out process’ in a young people-friendly tone, presenting different scenarios and considerations for minors interested in changing their gender identity.

At the end of the document you will find a photo of Easton and the other co-authors of the guide.

Although Easton has deleted most of his social media profiles, he also admitted on his now-deleted Facebook that he had raised money for the government-funded organization, claiming that their “mission means a lot to (him).” He also allegedly ran a small X account where he called himself “Annabelle Ende” and dressed as a drag queen.