A DAD-of-two who admitted downloading disgusting child rape movies could face jail.

Former youth football coach Craig Raeburn stored hundreds of images of children - some as young as three years old - being abused by adults on two laptops he kept at his Port Seton home.

Raeburn, 52, was also found to have file sharing software installed on his computer, while his internet searches included '10-year-old boy having sex with dad' and 'China: 11-year-old boy ****** and crying'.

He was found to have collected more than 1,400 disturbing child abuse images and a further 20 movies.

But he walked free from allegations that he had performed sex acts on a 14-year-old boy in his local church.

Married Raeburn was alleged to have sexually assaulted the teenager at Cockenzie and Port Seton Old Parish Church, while he had also been charged with sexually assaulting a second 14-year-old boy at the accused's family home at Seton Court, Port Seton.

But not guilty pleas to the four charges involving the teenage boys were accepted by the Crown during today's (Thursday) hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

Raeburn was warned by Sheriff Norman McFadyen that "all sentencing options remain open" and he was placed on the sex offenders' register for a time still to be determined.

Fiscal depute Naomi Warner told the court that police officers had confiscated two laptops and a hard drive from Raeburn's home and discovered he had deleted many of the downloaded child abuse files.

But officers using specialist software managed to recover most of the images and associated file names.

Many of the images and movies were at the most serious end of the spectrum and included three-year-old boys being raped by adults.

Ms Warner said: "The images and movies appear to have been deleted from the device and were not accessible without specialist software.

"File sharing software was also found and a number of file names within the software included 'ten-year-old boy having sex with dad' and '11-year-old boy ****** and crying'.

"On the large part it would appear to be boys, but some files relate to a 12-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl having sex.

"The Category A images totalled 326 images and 16 movies that depicted boys aged from three to 14 years old engaging in penetrative activities with adults or other children."

Raeburn, a first offender, also admitted to a charge of breaking bail conditions previously imposed by a court by contacting one of the boys involved in the dropped charges.

Sheriff McFadyen said: "In a case of this nature I am required to get a full background report and sentence will be deferred."

Raeburn pleaded guilty to downloading and possessing indecent images of children at his home address between November 1, 2012, and February 4 last year.

He also admitted to breaking bail conditions by contacting a teenage boy between February 5 and November 2 last year, despite being ordered not to during earlier court hearings.

Raeburn will return to court to be sentenced next month.