SEX OFFENDER TARGETED YOUNG BOY FOR YEARS
A convicted sex offender, who repeatedly committing crimes against a six-year-old boy in woods in Dunfermline, has been sentenced to unpaid work.
Connor Potter targeted the youngster over a period of more than three years.
Potter, 28, of East Green, Anstruther, appeared for sentencing at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.
He admitted that on various occasions between 1st January 2011 and 19th September 2014, at Calais Muir Wood, Dunfermline, he caused a boy then aged between six and nine years, to participate in sexual activity.
Potter pulled down his lower clothing exposing his penis and asked the boy to touch it.
He induced the boy to repeatedly strike his penis with a stick and masturbated in his presence.
The court was told boy moved to the area with his family and Potter was living nearby in Trondheim Parkway West. He was seven years older than the boy.
They would meet every few days and Potter would take the young boy to a wooded area, around 15 minutes’ walk away from his home, said depute fiscal Sarah Smith.
The abuse began only days after the boy first met Potter.
It always happened in a secluded area in the woods with no-one else present.
It only stopped when Potter moved away from the area when he was aged around 16.
In the following years as the victim grew older, he “began to realise what had been done to him and that it was wrong”.
He told his sister and the police were contacted.
The court was told Potter was previously jailed and put on the sex offenders register for 10 years but is now working in a call centre.
Sheriff James Williamson imposed a community payback order with three years of supervision and 300 hours of unpaid work.
