A SICKENED mum has slammed a sheriff after a dental student who was found guilty of sexually assaulting her six-year-old daughter walked free from court.

Pervert Christopher Daniel, 18, denied carrying out the vile sex attacks on the girl while he was aged 15 to 17 and she was between six and eight.

1 Daniel won't face any punishment over sex attacks on child

He was granted an absolute discharge by Sheriff Gerard Sinclair after being found guilty at Dumbarton Sheriff Court at the end of a three-day trial.

It means Daniel, from Glasgow, will not be placed on the sex offenders’ register and the guilty verdict was not recorded as a conviction.

An STV investigation found that the victim’s family were not allowed to see a report by the sheriff to the Crown Office explaining the “wholly exceptional” decision.

The family believe Daniel’s middle-class background, his educational attainment and career prospects helped convince the judge to impose a lenient disposal.

The victim’s mum told STV: “I have been left to guess the reason why, and when I have voiced my opinion to professionals of my theory they’ve said that is exactly what it will be. How is that justice? How does this teach anything to anybody that’s committing this crime? I’d love to sit down with the sheriff and say: ‘Can you please explain, am I missing something?’ I would get more if I went to a supermarket and stole something.”

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The Crown Office informed the family that it intended to contest the decision after the trial, but the appeal was abandoned on January 4.

The family will now ask James Wolffe QC, the Lord Advocate, for answers over the sentencing decision.

said: “If it goes there and falls through, we’ve got a massive problem in Scotland. We should all be fearful if it goes to appeal, doesn’t get sorted and [Daniel] doesn’t get put on the sex offenders register.”

The family called police after their daughter told them that Daniel had touched her inappropriately on a number of occasions.

She gave a lengthy video interview to officers but her parents were later told that the recording had failed. She gave evidence over two hours during the trial via a video link and was cross-examined for another two hours by Daniel’s lawyer.

A Crown Office spokesman said: “Following full and careful consideration to all the facts and circumstances, crown counsel instructed that there should be no appeal against sentence in this case. The reasons for this have been explained to the family. We would be happy to offer the family a meeting to answer any further questions.”

Police Scotland said that the video problem had had no detrimental impact on the victim or the case.

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