A Labour MSP met a girl guides group at Holyrood days after he was charged with possessing indecent images of children.
Colin Smyth, pictured right, welcomed the teenage girls to the parliament over a week after the police action.
Police Scotland said Smyth, who was first elected as a Labour MSP nine years ago, had been charged on August 5th.
The Daily Record then revealed on August 28th he had also been charged over a secret camera in a Holyrood toilet.
Parliamentary authorities deactivated his Holyrood pass on the same evening as news broke of the new charges.
However, Smyth was able to access the Parliament for weeks after he was initially charged and he visited Holyrood on August 15th.
A spokeswoman for Girlguiding said: “Girls’ safety and wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do in guiding. We are aware that an MSP has been charged by Police Scotland.
“The MSP was present during a visit by Rangers and Young Leaders to the Scottish Parliament in August. Girlguiding has robust safeguarding policies and procedures in place, and no girls were affected.
“We cannot comment further on an ongoing police investigation.”