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A transgenderpaedophile - who attacked young boys and girls - has been caught trying to get obscene photos of one of her victims 'blown-up' bigger after being freed from jail .

Amateur photographer Nicola Florida, 50, served eight years for a string of sexual offences on children - and taking indecent pictures of some of them.

The offences took place when she was a man called Ross Florida - when she was subsequently banned from possessing a camera and having or taking photographs of any children aged under 16.

But a court heard that Florida - who switched to start using a woman's name while in prison four years ago - breached the order after being released last year.

Florida took a strip of four negatives to a photo shop in Somerset to be developed into larger 16" x 4" prints.

The 'uncomfortable' assistant spotted that they showed a naked young girl aged around ten posing for the camera and called the police.

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Officers searched Florida's home and discovered three cameras and more photos of the girl who was one of the victims she had been previously jailed over.

Prosecutor Emma Lenanton said: "There should be no misunderstanding of the order that was imposed for very serious offences and there should be no doubt how important it was to adhere to those prohibitions.

"Also, the number of cameras found, and the fact that she was wanting to print the photos, is particularly serious."

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Somerset Magistrates at Yeovil heard Florida was convicted in November 2007 of rape of a boy under 16, one under 13, and raping a girl under 16.

She was also convicted of three indecent assaults of a male under 14, gross indecency with a male under 16, indecent assault of female under 14, and two counts of taking indecent photos of children.

Defending, Nigel Yeo said Florida claimed she had found innocent photos in a wallet and thought the negatives were of similar snaps.

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He said: "She didn't look at the negatives in great details as if she had, it was highly unlikely she would have taken them to a photographic shop and given them her name and address."

He said the negatives had been taken before she went to prison and were in a box of old possessions she was sorting through with her father.

He added: "She was proposing giving it back to her father when he next visited and has no recollection of the other cameras.

"She knows she should have been far more careful in relation to items coming into her home, and going through them much more carefully."

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Mr Yeo said Florida had two appointments this month at a gender identity clinic in London and was hoping to start hormones to achieve gender reassignment.

He added that Florida had also been prescribed anti-depressants and lived 'a fairly lonely existence'.

Florida from Wells, Somerset, pleaded guilty to breaching the Sexual Offences Prevention Order.

Magistrates said the offence was so serious she had to go to Taunton Crown Court to be sentenced.

They adjourned the case until next month and released Florida on unconditional bail.

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In a video interview conducted with Somerset Live in September, Florida admitted that she had been "hiding away as a transgender for many years".

In the feature she talks about her journey from man to woman and the life-changing operation. Somerset Live were unaware of her previous convictions.

Florida told Somerset Live: "There comes a time when you have to be one or the other, after struggling with it for it for so many years."

She tells in the video how she had been caught dressing up by her parents at 14 - when she knew she "was totally different to everyone else" - and "caught in the dressing up box... in female stuff" when she was in junior school.

Florida added: "I thought it was time not to worry what people thought any more. I thought it was time I embrace who I am instead of hiding away."

In a separate article that same month, Florida also gave advice to Somerset Live for its readers who think they are transgender.