A prolific teenage sex offender who targeted girls for online and in-person abuse has been detained for four years and placed on the sex offenders register for life.
A judge also ordered that Logan Summers should be supervised for a further four years and warned that if he failed to comply with licence conditions during that period he could be returned to custody.
Lady Poole told the 20-year-old, from Dundee, that he was being given a chance to rehabilitate and contribute to society and urged him: “Take it.”
Summers earlier admitted 19 charges of sexual abuse and breaches of bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and was sent to the High Court for sentencing. The abuse charges involved 10 girls aged between nine and 15.
He will begin the sentence at the end of an 18 month period of detention he is currently serving for similar, previous offending.
Trawled social media
His latest catalogue of crimes began in June 2021 as he trawled through Facebook and Snapchat seeking to identify potential targets as he sought intimate pictures from child victims and in some cases threatened to use the materiel he was sent.
But his offending escalated into the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl when he was aged 18.
On one occasion he molested the girl and on another he attacked her with intent to rape her after repeatedly trying to take her trousers off and exposed himself at a house in Dundee.
Summers also had sex with a 14-year-old girl at wasteland at the rear of an Iceland shop in the city’s Pitkerro Road in March last year.
Lady Poole told Summers at the High Court in Edinburgh that unsolicited sexual contact on social media caused distress and warned that victims of sexual crimes, whether online or in person, can suffer enduring harm.
The judge said that the most important mitigating factor in his case was his age now and at the time of the offending.
Defence solicitor advocate Iain Paterson said there was an opportunity for Summers to carry out a group work programme while serving his sentence which he wished to do.
He said that since he was sent to Polmont young offenders’ institution he has been “taking positive steps forward”.
“The fact that he pled guilty to the offences shows there is an understanding on his part that he must change,” said Mr Paterson.
Summers was placed on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.
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