A 53-year-old butcher who maintained a chilling “female” persona on social media has now been charged with rape and other sexual crimes in relation to his alleged abduction of an 11-year-old girl.
Andrew Miller appeared in Selkirk Sheriff Court today and was charged with alleged abduction, rape and sexual assault including sexual exposure to a young child, the Mirror reported.
Miller was also charged with offenses relating to the possession of an indecent photograph of a child, behaving in a threatening and/or abusive manner, and forcing a child to look at a sexual image. Upon hearing the charges, Miller made no plea and was remanded in custody and will be tried at a later date.
These new accusations provide a darker insight into the girl’s ordeal after she was held away from her family for nearly 27 hours. Miller had initially been taken in on charges of abduction, as well as for threatening or abusive behavior under the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 during his first court appearance on February 9. No sexual component to the crimes had been formally asserted until today.
The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was first reported missing from Galashiels in the Scottish Borders area on the evening of Sunday, February 5, after failing to return home following a play date with friends. Police said she was around a “20 minute walk from home” before she disappeared without a trace, prompting a massive multi-agency operation into locating the child. Countless volunteers took to the streets in a bid to find the youngster.
Police Scotland announced that the girl had been found on February 7 in Montgomerie Terrace in the village of Gattonside, and she was returned to her family. Later that same day, law enforcement said they had arrested a man in connection to the girl’s disappearance.
Local sources came forward and revealed that the individual who had been apprehended was Andrew Miller, a local butcher known for his crossdressing habit.
Reduxx quickly discovered two Facebook profiles belonging to Miller, one of which utilizes a “female” identity under the name “Amy George.” Miller appears to have operated a “male” and “female” account simultaneously, with one using his birth name, regularly posting on both of the profiles.
In January of 2020, Miller posted on teaching children to explore their identities.
“That simple question that we ask ourselves… who am I? Deliver that same question to your children. Let them be themselves. Guide them, but not with boundaries. Teach them, but not with misguided morals. Love them and let them know and feel that they are loved, because that is the greatest gift of all,” Miller posted as “Amy George” in January of 2020.
In January of this year, Miller made a post alluding to the debacle surrounding Scotland’s Gender Recognition Act.
“Silly Billys [sic] in Westminster… Never mess with Scottish Transgender Issues,” Miller wrote just days after the UK Government moved to block a piece of Scottish legislation which sought to significantly relax the requirements for individuals to change their legal sex in Scotland.
Miller’s transvestic tendencies were apparently well-known within his community.
A source local to Miller told Reduxx that he had been labelled “tranny Miller” while in high school because of his proclivity for crossdressing, and that he had been known as a “knicker pincher” even as a student for his tendency to steal women’s undergarments.
After graduating, Miller apparently began occasionally dressing in women’s clothes both in the community and in his butcher shop. Two sources independently claimed that Miller had past contact with police for stealing women’s undergarments from clotheslines.
Some research suggests that men with crossdressing fetishes, also referred to as transvestic fetishism, are more likely to be sexually violent as compared with other men.
A study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry found that “fetishism and cross-dressing” are more often associated with sexual aggression than other paraphilias.
“Not only is transvestism associated with other paraphilias, it may go hand-in-hand with dangerous sexuality,” the authors wrote, noting that a 1989 study of serial sexual murderers found that 25% had engaged in cross-dressing, and 25% had engaged in acts of indecent exposure prior to committing an act of murder.
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