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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.