Trans predator spared jail after sex attacks as a woman… and a man

A TRANSGENDER sex offender was caught with three vulnerable children locked in a house, a court heard yesterday.

Police had to break down Ryan Scott’s door after neighbours reported seeing three youngsters enter his home.

By the time they got in, he had engaged in sexual activity with a girl aged 14.

Scott, 21, was convicted of a similar offence as a female called Coral Scott last year. At those proceedings, the accused was understood to be identifying as female in prison.

Yesterday, at Dundee Sheriff Court, Scott admitted engaging in sexual activity with a 14-yearold girl on April 9 last year. Sheriff Paul Brown imposed two special ‘conduct requirements’ prohibiting contact with under16s without permission and ‘reporting any intimate relationship to the supervising officer’.

One month before the latest offence took place, Coral Scott was banned at the same court from starting any new relationship without special permission.

She was banned from having unsupervised contact with any child under the age of 16, but was allowed to walk free from court after a sheriff said the time spent on remand would count as the punishment.

Scott, who was most recently being held in Polmont, was placed on the sex offenders’ register and under social work supervision for three years.

During that case, the court heard Scott lured a schoolgirl to a flat to engage in sexual activity on Valentine’s Day, despite knowing she was 14.

Scott, who was born female, then tried to pervert the course of justice by issuing death threats to the schoolgirl.

The victim’s mother, 33, said: ‘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.’

Scott – who has previous convictions for violence, threatening behaviour and carrying a knife – used fake social media accounts to target the girl.

Scott admitted sending messages which threatened the girl and tried to frighten her so she would not give evidence.

By the time of the final message, Scott had been released on six bail orders. Scott previously admitted having a knife in Wentworth Drive, Dundee, on January 6, 2022.