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Ottawa’s Kenny Tattersall, a 48-year-old air traffic controller, has pleaded guilty to molesting a girl at his private airport hangar.

Tattersall started molesting the girl when she was 12 and wasn’t arrested until three years later when she summoned the courage to expose the sex predator.

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The child-sex criminal was arrested and charged with a series of offences on Oct. 9, 2015 — days after he apologized to the girl by text.

He texted that he had betrayed her trust, and said “I cannot even begin to apologize.”

Tattersall apologized only after he was exposed and had always told her that if she told anyone he’d fabricate a story to cover his tracks.

Tattersall pleaded guilty last week at the Elgin Street courthouse to touching a minor for sexual purposes and sex assault and is now scheduled for sexual behaviour testing at the Royal Ottawa. He will be sentenced later this year.

Tattersall’s employer Nav Canada did not comment on the case, saying they have a policy not to talk about employees.

The sex predator is on bail awaiting his fate and is prohibited from being anywhere near children under the age of 16.

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