A predator carried out a Valentine’s Day sex crime against a 14-year-old girl after luring her back to a Dundee flat.
Ryan Scott, 20, enticed the schoolgirl back to the flat to engage in sexual activity, 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 targeting the frightened schoolgirl with death threats.
Scott committed the crime in February 2022, while living as a man.
Mother’s anguish over ‘monster’
The victim’s mother, 33, said: “After it happened my child changed, she became withdrawn, even violent and wouldn’t speak to us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.”
Remanded
Scott, from Dundee, admitted a series of charges on indictment at Dundee Sheriff Court last week and has 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 – named 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.
A spokesman for the Scottish Prison Service said: “We do not comment on individuals.”
Lured back to flat
Scott – who has previous convictions for violence, threatening behaviour and carrying a knife – used fake social media accounts to target the girl.
Fiscal depute Joanne Ritchie said: “The accused and the girl initially developed a friendship on SnapChat through a mutual friend’s group.
“On February 14 2022, 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.
“They kissed each other on the lips.”
Threatening messages
Scott accused the young girl of “pushing for it” and her friend later told police the accused was well aware the victim was just 14 years old.
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.
The sender’s details were blocked but when she opened the message she immediately recognised Scott’s voice.
The message said: “See the next time I see you, you better not be in my scheme or I’ll f***ing do you. You’re a f***ing slut.”
Ms Ritchie said: “She spoke to her mum and was upset as she thought the accused was going to come to her home and get her.”
Scott was reported to police and then traced and charged on May 1.
Nine days later, when already subject to six bail orders, Scott again targeted the child.
She received a SnapChat friend request and accepted, thinking it was someone from school but it contained two abusive voice messages from Scott.
The girl used a second device to record the messages and play them back to her mother.
By the time of the final message, Scott had been released on six bail orders.
Knife offence
Scott admitted sending threatening messages on April 29 and May 10, trying to frighten the girl so she would not give evidence.
Scott also admitted having a knife on a street in Dundee on January 6 2022 and hitting a door and window with it, as well as poking it through a letterbox.
The court heard how a child heard Scott shouting outside his house and banging on the front door and then saw a knife poking through the letterbox.
Scott then started stabbing the knife into a window frame.
Sheriff Paul Brown deferred sentence for reports and Scott, whose address was given as c/o HMP Polmont, continues to be remanded since May 20 last year.
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