Campaigners have called for greater protection of female-only spaces after a trans woman avoided prison for sexually assaulting a ten-year-old girl in a supermarket toilet.

Katie Dolatowski, 18, forced the girl into a toilet last March , ordered her to remove her trousers and told her there was a man outside who would kill her mother. The girl managed to escape.

Dolatowski admitted sexual assault at Kirkcaldy sheriff court last week and was given a community sentence and tagging order, meaning she is not allowed contact with children. However, she was released from Polmont Young Offenders Institution into supported accommodation.

Dolatowski had also tried to film a 12-year-old in another supermarket toilet in Dunfermline last February by holding her phone over the cubicle partition.

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