A Perthshire man who lured a schoolgirl into a house to make sexual advances towards her has been put on the sex offenders register.
Garry Kemley (39) was also placed under supervision for two years and ordered to attend community sex offenders group work and mental health treatment.
To entice his teenage victim off the street, Kemley claimed his elderly grandmother had fallen and needed help.
In fact, Perth Sheriff Court heard, there was no one in the house in Auchterarder which the horrified youngster soon became all too aware of.
She was forced to flee with the accused hot on her heels after he revealed his true intentions and asked her directly whether she wished to have sex.
Having made her escape, the 17-year-old telephoned her mother and the police were also contacted, resulting in Kemley’s apprehension.
He admitted the offence during an interview with officers and apologised.
The court has since heard that mental health issues could have played a part in the offence.
Depute fiscal Stuart Richardson told the court Kemley had been involved in a relationship that had broken down, finally ending on March 15, when he carried out the offence.
Mr Richardson said: ”It took place at a house that had been owned by the grandmother of the accused’s partner.
”Some time previously she had indeed fallen and been removed to hospital, but she was still within the hospital at this time.”
He added: ”Mr Kemley came out of the house and spoke to the girl, telling her that his grandmother had fallen and asking her to come in and help him.
”She agreed to offer assistance as it was local knowledge that the elderly lady had previously suffered a fall.
”She followed him into the house, leaving her schoolbag and umbrella in the kitchen and at the instigation of the accused followed him upstairs.”
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Once upstairs, the depute fiscal said the teenager had begun to feel ”uneasy” as ”there was no sign of an elderly lady”.
Kemley, the court heard, made a fleeting reference to finding a walking stick for his grandmother before asking the teenager: ”Actually, do you want sex?”
Mr Richardson said: ”She ran downstairs and out of the house. She could hear the accused coming down the stairs after her but she made it outside and called her mother.”
The girl’s mother swiftly arrived, finding her daughter distressed, while the accused was spotted driving away.
Mr Richardson said they went to the house briefly, where they found Kemley had left the girl’s possessions on the doorstep.
Kemley (39), of Parkside, Meigle, admitted that he behaved in a threatening manner likely to cause a person to suffer fear and alarm and pretended to a woman that an elderly person had fallen within the property and that he required assistance, causing the woman to enter the property on the basis of the false pretence, encouraged her to follow him to a bedroom, asked her to have sex with him and placed her in a state of fear and alarm.
Addressing the court on Wednesday, solicitor Mike Tavendale said his client was in a fragile mental state.
He said: ”This offence appears to have taken place amid a breakdown of sorts, related to Mr Kemley’s mental health issues.
”He has attended at Murray Royal Hospital and he has seen a psychiatrist there. He is certainly in need of additional support.”
Mr Tavendale tried to persuade Sheriff Lindsay Foulis that placing his client on the sex offenders register would have ”a fairly severe detrimental effect”, given his mental health.
However Sheriff Foulis said registration for two years was appropriate.
He said: ”This may have been a moment of madness and the comment made may have been daft, but there was an element of enticement that is concerning.
”To describe it as planning may be making too much of it, but there was certainly an element of forethought.”