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A MUM has been told to stay away from a mall so the child sex pervert who abused her daughter is free to do his weekend shopping there.

James Bryson - who had charges of raping the five-year-old dropped when he pleaded guilty to other horrifying sex attacks on her - was freed on Thursday.

The girl's mum was horrified to find he was moving near her family and social workers had agreed he could have "shopping access" to her local centre at weekends.

Last night, the furious mum said she had been told Bryson, who served 40 months of an five-year sentence, had to have his human rights protected.

The woman, who cannot be named to protect the identity of her daughter, now 10, said: "It's bad enough he's out.

"But then I found out he was living just five minutes away from us.

"And I was told his conditions allowed him to use the local shops at weekends so I was advised not to go there or I risked meeting him.

"It's a horrific situation for us and makes me feel sick.

"The social worker who came to my house said it was to do with his human rights. I couldn't believe what I was hearing."

Former pub bouncer Bryson, 31, originally from Possil, Glasgow, was released from high-security Peterhead Prison this week.

He was originally charged with raping the five-year-old on "various occasions" between January and June 2004.

At the High Court in Edinburgh in 2005, he agreed to admit a string of gruesome sex attacks on the girl.

He is meant to be supervised in the community until 2013.

The mum and her daughter moved from their former home in Glasgow - where the abuse took place - to the city's Drumchapel area to escape the memories of the abuse.

But the 26-year-old mum has been told Bryson is now living with family in Clydebank, five minutes away, where she gets her groceries at the giant Clyde Shopping Centre complex.

She said: "He ruined our lives and my daughter still has nightmares. We thought we would move to get away from it all only to be told he was moving in close by.

"He is banned from Clydebank shops during the week but is allowed to use them at weekends.

"I use those shops and the weekend is obviously my main shopping time so we are at an inconvenience in order to suit him.

"We were not happy with him being out of jail so early. The whole thing stinks. They said although he is only five minutes away, I am in Glasgow Council area's while he is in West Dunbartonshire, so there was nothing they could do about it."

The mum added: "I don't see why he had to come to Clydebank. He's not even from here.

"I use Asda at the centre for my main shop. I also take my daughter to the cinema on a Saturday for the kids' club because it's only s1.

"I won't be able to do that any more. Running into him is my worst fear.

"The guy from social services told me out of the blue it wouldn't do me any good speaking to a newspaper about this.

"They said he needed the support of his family and it would make it difficult for him to get back on his feet if all this appeared in the papers.

"They made out he was the victim. But what about us? "

A West Dunbartonshire Council spokeswoman said: "The impact on the victim of an offence is always considered when arrangements are being made for an offender's release.

"This can include alerting a victim to situations where they might inadvertently come across the offender if they did not have that information."