A paedophile who carried out a sex crime against a 14-year-old girl has been banned from starting any new relationship without special permission.
Coral Scott – also known as Ryan according to court papers – has also been banned from having any unsupervised contact with any child under the age of 16.
The 20-year-old sex offender walked free from court last week after a sheriff said the time spent on remand would count as punishment.
Scott – who has been locked in a mixed facility with male and female teenagers – was placed on the Sex Offenders Register and under social work supervision for three years.
Sheriff Paul Brown, at Dundee Sheriff Court, imposed two special “conduct requirements” – prohibiting contact with any under 16 without permission and “reporting any intimate relationship to the supervising officer.”
The name and date of birth of anyone of anyone with whom Scott becomes involved must be made known to the authorities.
‘Monster’
The court previously heard how Scott lured a schoolgirl back to a Dundee flat to engage in sexual activity on Valentine’s Day, despite knowing she was only 14.
The accused – born female and also known as Coral Scott – then tried to pervert the course of justice by taunting the frightened schoolgirl with death threats.
The victim’s mother, 33, said: “After it happened my child changed, she became withdrawn, even violent, and wouldn’t speak to us.
“We knew something had happened.
“We didn’t know she had gone to meet someone.
“Then a friend got in touch and said this person had told others they were going to be meeting our daughter.
“They also said the person was called Coral Scott.
“We kept asking our daughter, ‘Who is Coral?’ She said he was called Ryan. We didn’t understand.
“It was weeks later when she finally told us this person had forced her to do things she didn’t want to do.
“She said she was traumatised and paralysed with fear when it was happening.
“It broke our hearts to see what this monster had done to our little girl.
“It destroyed our beautiful daughter.
“She was a child and whether he was a man or a woman, this was an adult preying on a child.”
Physical and phone abuse
Scott, from Dundee, admitted a series of charges on indictment and had been remanded pending reports in HMP Polmont.
The Young Offenders unit houses remand and convicted youngsters of both sexes aged between 16 and 21.
Scott – designed on court papers as ‘Coral Scott, also known as Ryan Scott’ – admitted ‘engaging in sexual activity with or towards’ the 14-year-old girl.
In court, the paedophile was referred to as Coral and was understood to be identifying as female in prison.
Scott – who has previous convictions for violence, threatening behaviour and carrying a knife – used fake social media accounts to target the girl months later after initially meeting on Snapchat.
Fiscal depute Joanne Ritchie told the court they met on Valentine’s Day 2022 outside the McManus Galleries and got a bus back to Scott’s flat.
They kissed, despite Scott’s friend later telling police the abuser was well aware the victim was only 14.
Scott sent abusive messages to the girl on April 29 and despite being traced and charged and subject to six bail orders, did so again on May 10.
Admissions
Scott admitted sending messages which threatened the girl and tried to frighten her so she would not give evidence in court.
Scott also admitted having a knife in Wentworth Drive, Dundee, on January 6 2022, and hitting a door and window with it, as well as poking it through a letterbox.
Solicitor Morgan Day, defending, said Scott had been studying to become a painter and decorator.
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