An apprentice whose boozy bragging inadvertently led to a blue video of him and a teenage girl appearing on Snapchat has been ordered to pay her £750 compensation for her distress.
Jack McDuff, 20, filmed two sexual encounters with the female in December 2019, while they were in a "brief" relationship.
Falkirk Sheriff Court heard they were both 18 at the time, and McDuff had assured her the filming was "for his personal use only".
Two months later, however, McDuff was videoed by someone else as he revealed the sexy scene to his mates -- and that ended up on the Internet.
Prosecutor Rose Wilson told Falkirk Sheriff Court: "While they were having consensual sex at his home on December 27th 2019, the complainer became aware that the flash was lit up on his phone and she believed he was recording them."
However she stayed for the remainder of the night, and they arranged to meet again later that day [Dec 28th 2019] at a Premier Inn.
Miss Wilson said: "At the hotel they again engaged in consensual sex. While this was occurring, she became aware he had his mobile phone out.
"She asked him to stop recording, but he said it would be for personal use only."
Early in February [2020], however, McDuff was drinking with his mates and some of them were shown "a few seconds" of a video on McDuff's mobile, on which it was possible to identify McDuff and the woman having sex.
The woman "was then made aware by colleagues at her work" that there was a video of her on Snapchat having sex.
Miss Wilson said: "The complainer viewed the recording and observed the reaction of other males.
"It caught a mobile phone clearly playing a clip of her engaging in sex with the accused.
"The Snapchat wasn't the video itself, it was a video of the accused's friends' reaction, but the problem was the video itself showed the video."
Miss Wilson said the victim was upset, but didn't report the incident immediately.
However, "continuing to be upset", she reported it to the police in April 2021.
McDuff, single, of Carronshore, Falkirk, a garage apprentice, admitted disclosing an intimate video without consent.
Solicitor Murray Aitken, defending, said: "He didn't want this to go out on Snapchat, but he was reckless in the extreme in showing it to his friends, and someone else videoed them.
"The point is, someone else made this public, and that was never Mr McDuff's intention.
"Afterwards, he did all that he could to make sure it was no longer available to be viewed.
"This was young, immature behaviour as opposed to anything wicked, but that's the danger of all of these things."
Sheriff Derek Livingston said McDuff had been "an 18-year-old boasting about having sex with this girl".
Imposing the £750 compensation order, he said: "This was extremely reckless, and breached your undertaking to her that this recording would only be for your own personal purposes.
"I've no doubt at all this must have caused her huge amounts of distress.
"I worry how money can make up for this, but it can at least go a small way to do so."
Outside court, McDuff refused to comment, and ran off from a reporter.
