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A child sex offender called police on himself after being caught in a “sting” by a group of self-styled “paedo hunters”.

Francis Burns is back behind bars after admitting sending nude photos and videos to a “girl” he knew to be 13 but who was, in fact, a decoy.

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A CHILDREN'S charity counsellor who featured in a BBC documentary about his polyamorous lifestyle has been found guilty of rape and indecent assault.

Morgan Prior was locked up after a jury found him guilty of raping one woman and carrying out a serious sex attack on another over a decade ago.

Prior - who spoke on TV about his unusual multiple-partner lifestyle - was remanded in custody and warned he faces a lengthy spell in prison.

The pony-tailed 33-year-old was found guilty by a majority of jurors at the High Court in Dundee but was cleared of four further sexual offences.

Temporary Judge Gallacher told Prior: "It is not remotely conceivable that a non-custodial sentence will follow. You have been convicted of two charges.

"One is serious and the other is very serious and the inevitable outcome I will address more comprehensively and completely at the next calling of the case.

"You have been convicted of offences which will inevitably result in a significant period of custody." He deferred sentence for reports to the High Court in Glasgow on 18 July.

One victim told the trial she had been attacked by Prior in December 2010, when he straddled her and used his legs to pin her to a bed, before raping her.

The other victim told the court that during October 2010 Prior indecently assaulted her at an address in Dundee. She described how he removed her clothing, seized her buttocks and legs and pinned her down, made sexual remarks and groped her.

He was cleared of other charges including an attempted rape in 2011 and an indecent assault on a 16-year-old girl in 2008.

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A Dundee paedophile with a side-line in drug-dealing has narrowly avoided a prison sentence.

Police raided Reece Boyle’s home following a tip-off he had been accessing obscene child abuse material.

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A contractor who sent a naked picture of his genitals to a female patient he spotted in hospital has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register for a year.

Scott Brown, 47, was carrying out contract work at the Carseview Centre when he targeted a woman who was being given medical treatment.

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Sheriff Paul Brown said twisted paedophile Logan Summers posed a "danger to the lives of the public" and has remitted sentencing to Scotland's top criminal court.

A Snapchat sex offender has been branded so dangerous to the public that a sheriff has been forced to remit his case to the High Court for sentencing.

Sheriff Paul Brown said twisted paedophile Logan Summers posed a "danger to the lives of the public" and a sheriff court sentence would be inadequate. Summers trawled social media to find young victims to sexually blackmail before luring vulnerable young girls to run away from home.

The 20-year-old helped one girl travel across country before pitching a tent on city wasteland and having unprotected sex with her. Summers, from Dundee, admitted a huge catalogue of vile offences against children as young as nine-years-old when he appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court.

His solicitor David Duncan said: "The court can properly form the view that the public would be at risk if Mr Summers was to have his liberty at this time. I fully accept custody is appropriate and inevitable and that requires to be a relatively significant period to reflect the charges.

"There is a danger he could become even more isolated or detached from society than he already is by the imposition of a considerable sentence."

Sheriff Brown said: "I should remit to the High Court of Justiciary for sentence where I hold that any sentence I impose is inadequate. The risk criteria has been met.

"The pattern of behaviour is such as to demonstrate that there is a likelihood, if he is at liberty, that he may endanger the lives or wellbeing of the public at large."

Summers - who is already serving 18 months after bragging about child rape and encouraging schoolgirls to join him in abusing children - was remitted. He admitted a total of 19 charges relating to sexual offences committed during a 12-month period from March 2021.

The Crown accepted not guilty pleas to a further 13 charges. Fiscal depute Lynn Mannion told the court that Summers trawled Facebook and Snapchat to identify young potential victims across Dundee and further afield.

In one case he managed to get himself added to a Primary Six Snapchat group before sending sexualised messages to the children. The court was told that Summers was described as one of the youngster's "boyfriend."

He met another girl through Facebook and persuaded her to send him nude pictures. When she refused to send any more he threatened to report her behaviour to her parents.

At one stage, he sent a video of himself. The court was told that the recipient of the material was "disgusted" by it.

Summers admitted luring a 15-year-old girl from her home to meet him in a park in Dundee by pretending to be just a few months older than her. He immediately tried to sexually assault her when she met him, and the girl followed Summers home to his flat because she was scared of the consequences of returning home after going missing.

Ms Mannion said: "She stayed in the accused's bedroom for a number of days. He repeatedly tried to touch her.

"He repeatedly tried to pull her trousers down. He eventually managed to pull her trousers down, before removing his shorts and exposing his penis. She was distressed and persuaded him she should leave."

Summers broke bail by continuing to communicate with the girl. Summers then bullied and blackmailed another 13-year-old girl into sending him explicit photographs and asked her to take nude images while she was at school.

When she asked him to delete the pictures, he said: "I'm keeping everything. You just need to be good and I will never post them.

"If I ask you to do something I expect you to do it. I'm willing to risk it. You belong to me now."

He then got in touch with a 14-year-old girl from Glasgow who revealed that she was unhappy and was considering running away from her foster home.

Ms Mannion continued: "He arranged to meet her on 7 March 2022 in Glasgow. They got a bus to St Andrews and then to Dundee. He brought a tent and assembled it behind Iceland supermarket.

"They spent the night in it. They spent the next day shopping and the next night returned and assembled the tent in the dark."

She said Summers had unprotected sex with the girl. Summers is already on the Sex Offenders Register for ten years after previously appearing in the same court and admitting a series of similar charges.

In that case, he sent explicit child porn images to random youngsters and told one girl to carry out a sex act on a child she had been photographed with. Summers, of Dundee, spent several months using Snapchat - where he used the moniker "DundeeShock" - to target innocent victims.

Summers messaged one victim: "Wanna see child porn? I'll rape your ass. I'm gonna get you pregnant and rape the baby."

Summers sent the girl an image of a child being abused and boasted that it was "just like" the time he raped a child he was babysitting for. "Meet up with me," he told her. "I'll just rape you then. I'll rape you like I raped a child I was babysitting." He sent a picture of a naked child.

The court heard that the girls were not known directly to the former Harris Academy pupil, but he had worked out they lived in and around Dundee from their social media profiles.

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Ryan Scott – who was born female – lured the schoolgirl back to their home after meeting up on Valentine’s Day last year.

A transgender paedophile carried out a sex attack on a teenage girl while living as a man. Ryan Scott – who was born female – lured the schoolgirl back to their home after meeting up on Valentine’s Day last year.

The 20-year-old, who uses the name Coral Scott, pounced on the girl, who was just 14 at the time, and tried to engage her in sexual activity. After being caught, Scott set up fake social media accounts to abuse and threaten the victim.

The sex attacker has been on remand on Polmont Young Offenders’ Institution and is in the female wing of the prison – despite identifying as male since childhood. Scott appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court on Friday under the birth name Coral and admitted to a series of charges.

Last night, the mum of the victim, who is now 15, 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.”

The 33-year-old parent from Dundee, who cannot be named for legal reasons, added: “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 is an were adult preying on a child.”

Scott – designated 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 is understood to be identifying as female in prison.

During a hearing, prosecutor Joanne Ritchie told the court the pair had developed a friendship on Snapchat through a mutual friend’s group. Describing the attack, she said: “She and the girl met at the McManus Galleries in Dundee. She and the accused then travelled to the accused’s address by bus.

“They were initially alone and sat in the living room watching movies. A short time later the accused’s friend arrived. The accused’s behaviour changed and she began to show off by kissing and sucking the girl’s neck, leaving bruising.”

Scott then tried to pervert the course of justice by sending the schoolgirl death threats. The sex attacker used fake social media accounts to target her. Scott was reported to police and then traced and charged on May 1 last year.

Nine days later, when already subject to six bail orders, Scott sent threatening messages to the girl. She received two voice messages from Scott, who said: “So see if I get the jail mate, you’re f***ed mate. You’re dead. You’re just a pure f***ing horrible c***.”

On April 29, the complainer was in her bedroom when she received a Snapchat voice message from someone called 'Bob', who was not known to her. When she opened the message, she immediately recognised her attacker’s voice. Scott said: “See the next time I see you, you better not be in my scheme or I’ll f***ing do you.”

The sex attacker is housed in the female wing of HMP Polmont in Falkirk, which houses remand and convicted youngsters of both sexes aged between 16 and 21. Scott, who turns 21 in June, could be moved to an adult prison if handed a jail term when she is sentenced on March 2.

A spokesman for the Scottish Prison Service said: “We do not comment on individuals.” First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is still facing questions over why male-born double rapist Isla Bryson was sent to a female prison.

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A Dundee creep who sexually assaulted a woman and flashed a teenager on the same night will be on the sex offenders register for a decade.

Jason ONeil has a history of sexual crimes, including sharing a private video of a woman performing a sex act on him.

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A serial sex offender branded a “real and imminent danger” has been caged for sexually assaulting a woman in Dundee.

Remorseless Ian King forced himself on his victim at a premises in the city’s Lyon Street in November, last year.

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A paedophile who was discovered with a haul of baby rape videos has been sent to prison for 28 months.

The sickening haul was found when convicted sex offender David Robertson was discovered with child abuse material for the third time in a decade.

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Serial sex offender, Irene Torrie, 42, has previous convictions for grinding up against a train conductor and carrying out a sex act in front of police, a court heard

A randy woman groped a male taxi driver and exposed herself to him, before offering to pay for sex.

Serial sex offender, Irene Torrie, clambered into the front of the cab before stripping off her shorts and exposing herself to the driver.

She also forced the shocked driver to touch her breasts, thighs and buttocks, before telling him she had a condom with her and that she was a good f*** who would pay him if he came into her house.

The 42-year-old, who has previous convictions for rubbing her body against a train conductor and carrying out a sex act in front of police, was placed on the Sex Offenders Register.

Torrie had a sentence deferred at Dundee Sheriff Court, where Sheriff Paul Brown queried whether a woman could be placed on the Tay Project - a rehabilitation scheme for sex offenders.

The Dundee resident admitted sexually assaulting the driver on various roads in the city on May 29, 2020 by touching his penis and exposing her vagina to him.

She admitted making sexual comments and forcing him to touch her.

She also admitted shouting, swearing and making racist remarks to a couple in Balmuir Road, Dundee, on June 1, 2020.

Finally, she admitted communicating indecently with a neighbour by asking to have sex with him and commenting on his penis size on August 1, 2020.

Prosecutor Lora Apostolova told the court: "She sat in the back seat and started asking questions.

"She asked where he was born, if he was married, and if he would cheat on his wife.

"She climbed over into the front seat.

"The driver pulled over and told her she couldn't move seats while he was in motion.

"She touched his penis over his clothing with both of her hands.

"He removed her hands.

"The accused removed her shorts and showed her vagina and said 'I would like you to lick it.'

"He told her to put her shorts back on."

Torrie was dropped at her ex-husbands home to try to persuade him to give her money and alcohol

According to the driver Torrie's ex said: Be careful of her. Take her away. We dont want her here.

The driver started recording on his mobile phone and Torrie said: Ill pay you if you come inside. Are you f****** or not?

In a previous case, Torrie admitted causing uproar on a train after a Prosecco binge by rubbing her body against the conductor who tried to calm her down.

The conductor asked the serial sex pest where she was going and she replied: You can take me anywhere.

After grinding her body against the shocked conductor, Torrie was thrown off the Dundee-bound train in Perth and arrested by British Transport Police.

A year earlier she had been placed on the Register after performing a sex act in front of police when they turned up to quiz her about a neighbour dispute.

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A convicted child rapist was caught by paedophile hunters after he sent a video of himself having sex to what he thought was a 12-year-old girl.

Dean McKinney, who was jailed in 2012 for raping a teenager, pestered the child for nude pictures.

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A Dundonian who was confronted by paedophile hunters after he sent sexual images to what he thought was a 13-year-old girl will be monitored by social workers for years.

Forklift driver Andrew Galbraith, believed he was sending obscene images of himself and engaging in sex chat with a child.

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A company director who volunteered at a leading private school has been jailed after being caught with a sickening horde of child abuse material.

David Rankine, who built-up a leading media firm, was given an extended three year sentence when he appeared in the dock at Perth Sheriff Court.

Rankine, 42, was well-known as a first aider who was often called in to offer treatment to young pupils at £14,000-a-year Dundee High School.

He jailed Rankine for eight months, with a further 24-months post-prison extended sentence, and placed him on the Sex Offenders Register for a decade.

Sheriff Duthie said: "Because of the gravity of the crime you committed a custodial sentence is the only appropriate disposal. You were part of the process of child abuse.

"People like you are creating a demand for material. You can properly be said to contribute to the pain and fear of children who are physically abused."

Rankine, one of the driving forces behind award-winning MTC Media, was caught with photos and videos featuring boys as young as four being sexually assaulted by adults.

Police descended on his Carnoustie home after a tip-off in early 2021 and seized a range of devices, including four laptops and two iPhones.

Analysists found around 750 illicit files, with about a third ranked as Category A for obscenity. Rankine resigned as a director at MTC Media weeks after his arrest.

The website-building company, which counts Scottish Water, Umbro UK and Brewdog among its clients, stressed he had not had an active role in the firm since 2018.

Rankine admitted possessing indecent images of children at his former home in Henry Cotton Place, Carnoustie, between 24 December 2008 and 21 January 2021.

Fiscal depute Alistair McDermid told the court: "Confidential information was received by Police Scotland that indecent images of children may have been held within a property.

"The accused answered the door and police were permitted access. A systematic search of the address was then commenced by four officers."

Four laptops, two iPhones, six hard-drives and a tablet device were seized and a preliminary examination discovered a series of illicit images.

The fiscal depute told the court 574 still images and 183 videos were found on the devices.

He said: "The male children depicted in these pictures and videos are between four and 16 years of age."

A spokesman for MTC Media confirmed that Rankine has not been a "director or employee" since March 2021.

The company began in 1999 but was relaunched by former Carnoustie High School pupil Rankine - as business development director - and two others five years later. The company now has a workforce of more than 100 people.

Rankine was a regular first aid volunteer at Dundee High School sports events. He administered first aid to boys of all ages at the Mayfield Sports Centre.

A spokesman for Dundee High School said: "We can confirm that first aid cover at our school sports fixtures is provided by St Andrew's First Aid, with whom Mr Rankine was a volunteer.

"We are not aware of any suggestion or evidence, at this stage, or any issue or concern regarding the conduct of Mr Rankine in his capacity as a volunteer."

He added: "The high school has strict child protection and safeguarding policies and procedures in place and as part of due diligence, require risk assessment and safeguarding protocols to be observed at all times."

A spokeswoman for St Andrew's First Aid added: "We have been aware of David Rankine's crimes and we have deep sympathy for those affected.

"While we cannot comment on any individual volunteers, we have the relevant safeguards and processes in place and take all matters pertaining to child protection extremely seriously."

A spokesman for MTC said: "We are all utterly shocked and appalled by the revelations around Mr Rankine. We condemn this in the strongest possible terms.

"Mr Rankine has not been involved in the business since 2018 and resigned as a director in March 2021. We were not aware of the reasons for the resignation as Mr Rankine refused to disclose this.

"However, given his lack of input into the business in recent years we were happy to accept. This was a tremendous shock to read this disturbing list of offences and our primary concern is first and foremost to our team and to anyone affected.

"We reached out to our team immediately to offer our support. We are glad to see that justice will be delivered appropriately for Mr Rankine's appalling crimes."

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A 21-year-old from Dundee is facing a lengthy prison sentence after being convicted of raping two underage schoolgirls at parties.

A jury found Jordan Pearson guilty of having sex with the two 13-year-olds at parties while they were intoxicated and incapable of giving or withholding consent.

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A man who sexually assaulted a woman in Dundee has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years.

However, background reports showed Javed Din is suitable for no other type of non-custodial punishment, such as unpaid work or compensation.

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