A pedophile who kidnapped a young girl from a primary school as she walked home and sexually assaulted her for more than a day has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
In February, in the Scottish Borders, Andrew Miller, 53, who also goes by the name Amy George, gave the youngster a ride while wearing a woman’s outfit. He had never seen her before extending the lift.
A court referred to the abuse the boy inflicted on the girl as “every parent’s worst nightmare” when he took her back to his home and repeatedly attacked her there.
Miller admitted admission to charges of kidnapping, sexual assault, viewing pornography in front of a child under 13, and having 242 indecent photographs of children in May at the High Court in Edinburgh.
The court heard Miller was transitioning into a woman.
The child, according to the prosecution, was imprisoned in his home for 27 hours during which time she was repeatedly molested and made to watch porn.
Miller stated that forcing the child to sleep next to him in bed “was a motherly thing” and that he had offered the child a lift “because she was freezing.”
Miller was wearing women’s underpants and was sleeping when the girl phoned the police.
The court was informed that she discovered the landline phone and called the police to report that she had been groped inappropriately.
His acts, according to Judge Lord Arthurson, were “abhorrent crimes” of the greatest “deviance and depravity” and “the realization of every parent’s worst nightmare.”
Three laptops were taken from his home after his arrest, along with a total of 242 pornographic photographs of youngsters.
Lord Arthurson said: ‘The narrative was frankly nauseating in terms of its depravity and criminal sexual deviancy.
‘On your arrest you denied the abduction and preposterously said you had acted in a motherly way.
‘Abduction of young children for the purposes of sexual torment is a mercifully rare crime in this jurisdiction.’
The judge told Miller his ‘primary focus’ throughout was himself and, while he showed an understanding of the impact his crimes had on the wider public, it was ‘limited’ in terms of the victim.
Lord Arthurson added: ‘You told the assessor you went into business mode, “trying to think of a plan”.’
Miller was sentenced to a 28-year extended sentence, with 20 years to be spent behind bars and a further eight spent on licence under supervision in the community.
He has also been placed on the sex offenders register.