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Transgender paedophile Kristen Lukess, previously Mark Turton, was made the subject of a sexual offences prevention order after being released from a seven year prison sentence for the rape of an under-age girl.

When freed in 2008, Turton changed name and gender and eventually set up home with the unsuspecting mother and their child who had no idea about her evil past.

After discovering her true identity, the woman notified police and Lukess has now been jailed for 20 months.

The 50-year-old pleaded guilty to two counts at Plymouth Crown Court to breaching her Sexual Offences Prevention Order by befriending a woman with an 11-year old son.

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Lukess had been banned from living with children and the court heard she also neglected to inform the victim of her history while she stayed at the home between August 1 and September 23 last year.

Prosecuting, Mike Brown said Lukess forced her way into the life of her latest victim after inundating her with messages via text, email and social media after they met at a local group.

Lukess, of Plymouth, Devon, stayed at the complainant's address over four nights a week and would sleep adjacent to the room housing her son.

The court heard she had been struggling with her switch from male to female after undergoing gender reassignment.

Defending, Nick Bradley said: "The victim's statement says that Lukess was struggling with her gender change that she had undertaken and was clearly in a state of some distress as to whether she had made the right decision.

"Lukess acknowledges she didn't tell the victim the full detail of her previous sexual offences but she did endeavour to do so.

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"Lukess was told by the victim that she wasn't concerned about the past, only the present and future."

The defendant also pleaded guilty to failing to register an address as one where she stayed between June and August.

Judge Ian Lawrie said: "You have pleaded guilty to two offences; you did not comply with the requirement to notify the mother of the child subject to your Sexual Offences Protection Order.

"You also resided in an address with a child under the age of 16.

"You need to appreciate these are serious offences; the requirements of your order were simple."

In addition to the prison sentence, the defendant's Sexual Offences Prevention Order was replaced with a fresh Sexual Harm Prevention Order.