A “very high risk” Dundee paedophile who sexually abused a child in a tent behind a city supermarket will be sentenced by a High Court judge.
Logan Summers pressured multiple young girls, some as young as nine, into sending explicit images.
The paedophile told his young victims he would “take the risk” of jail as he exploited them for naked photos and underage sex.
Summers, formerly of Balerno Place, “ran away” with a 14-year-old from Glasgow and set up a tent for them to live behind the Iceland store on Pitkerro Road.
The sick 20-year-old spent two days with the youngster and sexually abused her in the make-shift shelter.
He also admitted a number of bail breaches after contacting the girls when he was banned from doing so.
Sentencing passed upwards
After admitting more than a dozen offences, Summers was brought from HMP Polmont to Dundee Sheriff Court.
From the dock, he watched lawyer David Duncan ask Sheriff Paul Brown to sentence him on the spot, despite the defence solicitor acknowledging his client is “considered a very high risk” and “significant risk”.
Mr Duncan said: “He is still a very young person.
“He had a difficult childhood himself, without adequate support or role models.
“There could be a danger that he becomes even more isolated from general society than he already is by the imposition of a sentence of considerable length.”
However, after considering a social work report and Tay Project assessment the sheriff decided sentencing should be remitted to the High Court where stiffer sentences and further restrictions can be imposed.
No date was set for Summers’ sentencing.
Victims in tent and Dundee flat
Already-convicted sex attacker Summers admitted 19 separate charges of possessing indecent images, threatening to leak images of youngsters online and having sex with a girl over the age of 13 and under 16, between March 2021 and March 2022.
Depute fiscal Lynn Mannion previously told the court he contacted a 14-year-old from Glasgow and hatched a plot for them to meet.
The pair travelled by bus to St Andrews and Dundee together, before setting up a tent behind the Iceland supermarket on Pitkerro Road.
While in the tent, Summers performed sex acts on her.
She told police she had consented.
The accused also contacted a 15-year-old girl and said he was 18.
They arranged to meet at Mill O’Mains park and Summers assaulted her by trying to touch her breasts and pull her top up.
The girl ended up staying in the accused’s bedroom for a few days because she feared she had been reported missing and Summers repeatedly tried to touch her body without consent.
When she stayed in his bed he repeatedly tried to pull her trousers down.
Online offending
Summers prowled Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram for young girls, some as young as primary six-age at the time.
In private messages, he would say he was “their boyfriend” and send them indecent images and videos of himself performing sex acts.
Ms Mannion said a girl had received a Facebook message from Summers asking her age and was sent a nude image – not of herself – in exchange for alcohol.
“The accused threatened to leak the images if she would not send him more.
“She disclosed the images, not of her.
“This continued to November 11 2021, when the witness contacted the police.”
‘Willing to risk’ prison
Ms Mannion said Summers sent another girl a video of him slapping himself.
Another complainer’s Snapchat private group with other nine and ten-year-old girls was infiltrated by Summers.
“He sent a picture to the group and said he was one of the girl’s boyfriends.
“He sent other messages asking who wanted to see naked pictures.
“The girls became very upset.”
The court heard he had intimate images of a young girl under 13 and threatened to send them to other people.
In February last year, he asked another girl to go to the back of her school and take a nude image for him.
He threatened to publish pictures she had already taken if she did not do what he asked, the court heard.
When she told him he would go to jail, he replied “I am willing to risk it”.
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