Derry woman already on Sex Offenders Register admits new child abuse charges
Nichole Scott (31) faces a prison sentence after pleading guilty to targeting a young girl while already under a five-year monitoring order.
Derry Crown Court heard today that a woman who has admitted child sex abuse offences, is already on the Sex Offender's Register for five years because of a relevant similar previous conviction.
In court today Nichole Scott, 31, from Holly Lane, Gransha Park in the Waterside area of Derry, pleaded guilty to intentionally attempting to incite a female child under the age of sixteen to engage in sexual activity.
Defence barrister Stephen Mooney told Judge Roseanne McCormick KC that the defendant, Nichole Scott, is due to be sentenced in Dungannon Crown Court on September 7 after she breeched the terms of a three year probation order earlier this year.
The order was imposed on her following her conviction for "a contact offence" which involved two other defendants, both of them men.
In court today Scott, 31, from Holly Lane, Gransha Park in the Waterside area of Derry, pleaded guilty to intentionally attempting to incite a female child under the age of sixteen to engage in sexual activity.
She further pleaded guilty to attempting to cause the same female child to look at an image of a person engaging in sexual activity and guilty to attempting to sexually communicate with the same female child for her personal sexual gratification.
Scott admitted committing the offences between January 28 and February 10, 2024.
Following the guilty pleas, Mr. Mooney told Judge McCormick that he accepted the entirety of the prosecution case.
"Her liberty is in peril because she is now the subject of breach proceedings for her previous conviction for a relevant offence, albeit not with an under eighteen", he said.
Judge McCormick ordered the preparation of a pre-sentence report and said she would fix a sentencing date for Scott on September 11.