A predator who targeted a young girl in a supermarket toilet has been placed on curfew as a direct alternative to a prison sentence.
Katie Dolatowski breached a strict sex offender notification requirement to inform police of any new addresses.
The 22-year-old had been placed on the Sex Offenders Register after sexually assaulting a child in a Fife supermarket toilet and filming another in a different shop in the Kingdom.
Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court heard Dolatowski had been living in Leeds after the offences but made a deliberate decision not to report a move north to Fife.
Dolatowski, of Clarimalt Drive, Kirkcaldy, admitted failing to notify police of a change of address between June 13 and September 9 this year.
Dolatowski could have been jailed but was instead placed on curfew after a sheriff said a social work report revealed a troubled background.
Notification breach
Solicitor Kieran Clegg, defending, said: “Miss Dolatowski lives at the address with her mother and it’s where she intends to stay for the foreseeable.
“She was escaping violence and difficulties with her abusive ex-partner and difficulties with her brother.
“Despite this, she has admitted that there’s a considerable time gap (in failing to register).“
Sheriff Timothy Niven-Smith noted Dolatowski had made a deliberate decision not to notify police due to concerns new accommodation would not be deemed suitable.
Mr Clegg responded: “Miss Dolatowski sought accommodation closer to home and approached Women’s Aid.
“They advised their only accommodation was in Leeds.”
Sheriff Niven-Smith, who noted Dolatowski’s background was “peppered with incidents of trauma”, imposed a four-month curfew.
He stressed it was a direct alternative to custody and further breaches could see Dolatowski jailed.
Past crimes
In March 2018, Dolatowski sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl in the toilets of Morrisons in Kirkcaldy.
The terrified youngster was grabbed by the face, shoved into the cubicle and ordered to remove her trousers.
The child fought her attacker with punches to the face and body.
The attack came a month after Dolatowski had filmed a 12-year-old girl on the toilet in another supermarket in Dunfermline.
Dolatowski was placed on a three-year community payback order and banned from having contact with children.
There was outrage when it was discovered the paedophile, who identifies as a woman but whose victims believed to be male, was placed in a woman-only hostel.
In March 2019, Dolatowski was back in court accused of deleting the internet history on her phone.
A court oversight meant there had been no specific order banning such action but it was imposed with a warning doing so again would see her imprisoned.
A month later she was given another prison warning for “alarming” internet searches noted by social workers.
