Randall Scott Waters jailed for ten years for vile child sex offending against three 12-year-old girls

A heinous sex offender has been jailed after he catfished three pre-teen children and forced them to perform gruesome sex acts. Warning: Graphic content

An online groomer who pretended he was a 16-year-old boy to force three pre-teen girls into performing gruesome sex acts has been jailed for over a decade.

Randall Scott Waters, 52, was told he was at “low risk of reoffending” after being released from jail on similar crimes but turned to the internet to continue his “cruel and manipulative” conduct.

During sentencing, the District Court heard Waters sent an Instagram message to a 12-year-old girl living in another state in 2016.

“You represented yourself to be a 16-year-old boy living in South Australia,” Judge Emily Telfer said.

“The truth is you were at the time a man in your mid-40s living in a granny flat at the back of your parent’s house with convictions for sexual offending against a child.”

Randall Waters was jailed for 10 years for horrific child sex offences. Picture: Facebook

The court heard Waters cultivated an online relationship with the victim who came to believe he was her boyfriend.

Waters eventually shifted the communications to a sexual nature and asked the victim to send photos and videos of her naked.

He also began chatting to two of the victim’s friends, who were also aged 12 and in Year 7 at school.

The court heard the girls were forced to perform horrific sexual acts on themselves and each other over the course of a year – including bestiality with their pets, eating their own faeces and drinking their own urine.

Waters also sent one of the victims child exploitation material which he used to describe the acts he wanted her to perform, as well as getting her to post him her underwear.

Judge Telfer said Waters threatened to send the images to the girls’ families and friends or post them online if they didn’t comply with his demands.

When Waters was arrested, police found 1970 horrific child exploitation material files on his phones, including hundreds of the victims.

Waters, of Hackham West, pleaded guilty to multiple offences, including possessing child exploitation material and inciting an indecent act by a child.

The court heard Waters was sentenced in 2012 to three years jail, with a non-parole period of 12 months for sexually abusing a child and making a video of it.

After being released, Waters successfully completed a sexual offenders treatment program and was assessed as a “low risk” of reoffending.

The court heard Waters became a “social recluse” and his chronic loneliness and inability to find work led to his vile online offending.
Judge Telfer sentenced Waters to 10 years and seven months jail, with a non-parole period of eight years and five months.

“Your offending against each of the 12-year-old girls was cruel, manipulative and exploitative,” she said.

“You and people like you are the reason that parents cannot allow their children to independently explore the internet and the world of social media.”

The sentence was backdated to November 5, 2021.