Advocate depute Martin Crawford, prosecuting, said: “These were experiences that happened when they were children, in circumstances which were outwith their control.”
The court heard that one woman was left struggling with issues of trust and maintaining intimate relationships and had avoided the area where her abuser lived.
Defence counsel Andrew Crosbie said that Stobie was also the subject of an online vigilante “sting”, when he tried to obtain naked pictures from young girls.
He was, in fact, speaking to adults who live-streamed a confrontation with him at his home in August 2022.
Stobie admitted a four charges of attempting to communicate indecently with underage girls.
Mr Crosbie said: “He accepts that he has been convicted of offences of real gravity”.
Stobie was jailed for 12 years and nine months and put on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
He was also given a non-harassment order prohibiting him approaching or contacting his four victims.