Carer sentenced over sex with vulnerable boy Published duration 27 October 2016

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A care charity worker who admitted having sex with a vulnerable teenage boy has avoided a prison sentence.

Harriet Jackson, 34, from Paisley, Renfrewshire, became the daytime carer for the 16-year-old in October 2014, after he left the care system.

She had sex with him at his flat in Paisley on 7 February 2015.

At Paisley Sheriff Court, Jackson was banned from working with children. A sheriff spared her jail after hearing it would harm her own children.

The court previously heard that Jackson, who has three children of her own, began working for the charity Catch Scotland in April 2014.

In October that year she began acting as day carer for the 16-year-old before she had sex with him months later at his flat.

Jackson was caught after the boy later told another carer and police were contacted.

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