• 7 years ago
• Posted in:Child Sexual Abuse, Public Decency Offences, Rape / Sexual Assault, Sexual Offences
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• Author: Thomas Gradgrind
• Tags: Aged 50-59, Assumed identity to access victims, Autogynephilia, Changing room exposure, Child victim, Convicted 2014, Cross dresser, Cross-dressing as disguise to commit offence, Crossdressing while offending, Female victim, Fetish, Gavin Scott, Get Out Of Jail Free card, Lindsay Foulis, Multiple victims, No jail, Offended in female space, Perthshire, Public masturbation, Repeat offender, Scotland, Sex offender programme, Store changing room, Tay Project, Transvestite, Women's clothing/shoe stores

Gavin Scott, a violent male transvestite, was convicted at Perth Sheriff Court in 2014 of sexually assaulting three female shop assistants at clothing and shoe stores, one of whom was aged just 17 years old. Three other charges relating to similar incidents at a third store and a school car park were dropped. His bail conditions banned him from St Catherine’s Retail Park in Perth.

Scott, 52, escaped a prison sentence, despite such serious and repeat sexual offending, and (male) Sheriff Lindsay Foulis instead ordered Scott to pay a total of £900 in compensation to his three victims. He was also placed on the sex offenders register for three years, during which time he will be subject to a supervision order and ordered to attend the Tay Project programme for sex offenders.

Scott, had arrived at the store wearing stereotypically female clothing, asked the 17-year-old to help him while he tried on dresses. The teenager felt uncomfortable as Scott insisted on keeping his hands behind his back and therefore left the dressing room. As he left the store he then sexually assaulted her. Scott then perpetrated similar offences in two other stores and the court heard he was observed to be “touching himself while browsing for thigh-high boots.”

See also Geoffrey Rainey Kelly, another transvestite who similarly used the pretext of a store changing room to expose his genitals to a 16 year old girl.

See also this post from the Gender Identity Watch team which notes:

“Women who work in clothing stores or other places where they are expected to provide service to women in intimate settings do not exist for fetishistic Men to demand “service” like this. We are unaware of any legislative body that has adequately addressed the concerns of Female employees whose working conditions require them to provide intimate service Male members of the public who identify as Women.“

Photo credit: Daily Express

Media reports

The Courier https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/59323/cross-dresser-sentenced-for-sexual-assaults/ archive 

Daily Express https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/466020/Perth-Transvestite-stands-accused-of-sexual-assault archive

The Sun https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/627614/crossdresser-given-shops-ban-over-perth-grope-rap/