The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Perth man admits having sex with under-age girl.
POLICE: Search of 15-year-old victim’s bedroom uncovered diary of sexual events
A Perth man faces jail after he admitted having sex with an under-age girl.
The offences were recorded in the pages of the 15-year-old victim’s diary, which was found by police.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that Ryan Dunn told the youngster he loved her, just days after they met in Perth in early 2016.
Dunn, 27, had sex with the girl about 10 times over a period of six months.
Advocate depute Joanna McDonald told the High Court yesterday: “They met in March 2016 and formed a ‘boyfriend-girlfriend’ relationship.
“On March 31, the accused (Dunn) contacted the complainer on Facebook and asked her to meet up with him at South Inch, Perth. At the meeting, she told him she was only 15 years old. He told her he was 24, but he loved her.”
After about six months, the girl was taken into care by the local authority amid growing concern that she was at risk, the court heard. Dunn continued to call her and repeatedly told her that he loved her.
Later, she was reported missing by her mother, prompting police to search the family home.
In the girl’s bedroom, they found her diary with handwritten evidence of Dunn’s crime.
Dunn, described as a prisoner in Edinburgh, admitted having sex with the youngster at his home in Perth and another location in the city between March and August 2016.
He further admitted a second charge that he and Perth woman Mary Hodge, 29, did wilfully ill-treat and neglect three young children.
In 2017, Dunn was jailed for 10 months after a teenage girl was found under his bed, despite a legal order banning her from seeing him.
He was jailed for 30 months in October 2019 after he issued death threats and posted “revenge porn” videos during a campaign of harassment.
Lord Armstrong deferred sentence for background reports until February 21 at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Dunn was placed on the sex offenders register.
Meanwhile, several other charges against Dunn and Hodge and another man, Aaron Dunn, alleging sexual abuse of young children, were deserted “pro loco et tempore” by prosecutors – meaning that the case has been effectively shelved, but could be brought back at a later date.