Paedophile Dressed As Woman Jailed For 20 Years

A paedophile who abducted a primary school-aged girl as she walked home and sexually abused her for more than a day has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Andrew Miller, 53, also known as Amy George, was dressed as a woman when he offered the child a ride in the Scottish Borders in February. He had never seen her before offering the lift.

He took the girl back to his house and repeatedly assaulted her, which a judge described as “every parent’s worst nightmare.”

Miller pleaded guilty in May to charges of abduction, sexual assault, watching pornography in the presence of a child under the age of 13, and possessing 242 indecent images of children in the High Court in Edinburgh.

Miller was transitioning into a woman, according to the court.

Prosecutors claimed the girl was locked in his home for 27 hours and was repeatedly touched as well as forced to watch pornography.

The paedophile claimed he offered the youngster a lift ‘because she was freezing,’ and that forcing her to sleep next to him in bed was a “motherly thing.”

While Miller, who was dressed in women’s underwear, was sleeping, the girl dialled 911.

According to the court, she discovered the landline phone and called the police, claiming she had been inappropriately touched.

Judge Lord Arthurson described his crimes as “abhorrent crimes” of the utmost “deviance and depravity,” describing them as “the realization of every parent’s worst nightmare.”

Following his arrest, three laptop computers were seized from his home, along with 242 indecent images of children.

Lord Arthurson said: “The narrative was frankly nauseating in terms of its depravity and criminal sexual deviancy.

“On your arrest, you denied the abduction and preposterously said you had acted in a motherly way.

“Abduction of young children for the purposes of sexual torment is a mercifully rare crime in this jurisdiction.”

Miller’s ‘primary focus’ throughout was himself, according to the judge, and while he demonstrated an understanding of the impact his crimes had on the wider public, it was ‘limited’ in terms of the victim.

Lord Arthurson added: “You told the assessor you went into business mode, ‘trying to think of a plan’.”

Miller was sentenced to a 28-year extended sentence, with 20 years behind bars and an additional eight years on supervised release in the community.

He has also been added to the list of sex offenders.