‘No men in female jails’: Protest over trans paedophile
AROUND 60 feminists staged a demonstration outside a Scottish women’s prison yesterday to protest about a notorious trans paedophile being held there.
Brandishing pots, pans, drums and placards, the demonstrators outside Cornton Vale, near Stirling, were protesting against 22-year-old Katie Dolatowski – who was born male but identifies as female and is 6ft 5in tall – being housed at the jail after being given a four-month sentence.
She is understood to have been in a segregated unit since October after being jailed for breaching an order requiring her to notify police of any new address.
In March 2018 Dolatowski targeted a ten-year-old girl in the toilet of a Fife supermarket. The terrified youngster was grabbed by the face, shoved into the cubicle and ordered to remove her trousers, but managed to escape.
The attack came a month after Dolatowski had filmed a 12-yearold girl on the toilet in another supermarket in Fife. For the sex offences, she was placed on a three-year community payback order and banned from having contact with children.
Dolatowski is awaiting sentence after pleading guilty at Falkirk Sheriff Court to assaulting a fellow inmate while detained alongside male prisoners at Polmont Young Offenders Institution in January 2021. She had been serving a sentence for assault.
Yesterday’s demo was also a protest against Green and SNP MSPs voting against amendment 114 of the controversial Gender Reform Bill, which sought to make it harder for sex offenders to change their gender and effectively bury their criminal past.
Former SNP women’s convener Caroline McAllister, who defected to Alba, told the crowd at the demo: ‘It’s a hill we will die on – no males in female jails.’
Campaign group Keep Prisons Single Sex said Scottish jails were ‘effectively being run as mixedsex facilities’.