KATIE DOLATOWSKI, KNOWN AS A DANGEROUS TRANS SEX OFFENDER IN SCOTLAND, BACK IN COURT
In April 2023, a father publicly pleaded for the justice system to imprison his son, Katie Dolatowski, after the offender was released following a breach of bail conditions.Dolatowski, who has used multiple aliases including Alyanna McKenna, is a 22-year-old convicted sex offender with a history of heinous crimes, including assaulting a ten-year-old girl and secretly filming a 12-year-old girl in supermarket toilets in Fife during 2018.
Standing at 6 feet 5 inches tall, Dolatowski has also amassed two convictions for violent offences.
Despite court-imposed restrictions—including a strict sexual offences prevention order—the offender has repeatedly flouted these conditions.
Dolatowski was briefly detained last month after breaching a curfew meant to limit her movement at night, but was subsequently released into a budget hotel in Grangemouth under a new identity.
Court documents show that the third alias, Alyanna McKenna, was handwritten out and replaced with “otherwise known as Katie Dolatowski.” Simon, a 43-year-old father from Kirkcaldy who has disowned his son, expressed his outrage: “He needs to be locked up.
They are horrible offences.
I hate it.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s a small breach or not; rules are rules.
Those conditions are a direct alternative to jail.
So if you break them, you should go to jail.
I washed my hands of him long ago.” Dolatowski remains under the strictest supervision, including a sexual offences prevention order, after convictions related to her predatory attacks.
Her criminal history includes targeting a young girl at Morrisons in Kirkcaldy when she was 18, threatening to stab and kill her mother during the assault, but the girl managed to punch her and escape.
This attack followed an incident in Dunfermline, where she was caught secretly filming a 12-year-old in a toilet.
In September, Dolatowski was detained for 71 days in an all-women’s refuge in Leeds after being found using an alias and then expelled once her real identity was discovered.
She returned to Kirkcaldy to stay with a relative without informing authorities, leading to her arrest after a crowd gathered demanding her removal.
She was scheduled to appear at Falkirk Sheriff Court on March 23, but her lawyer, Ruaridh Hood, informed Sheriff Simon Collins that Dolatowski was not present.
Court records confirm she appeared at Edinburgh’s St Leonard’s police station outside curfew hours and was immediately arrested.
The case was adjourned for further sentencing on two breaches of strict conditions.
Dolatowski has previous convictions for violent crimes against males, including one at Polmont Young Offenders Institution, after which she was transferred to the female-only Cornton Vale prison near Stirling.
Her case has gained attention amid ongoing discussions over gender self-identification policies in Scotland, which the UK Government plans to oppose.
Dolatowski is scheduled to return to court on May 8.
Back in March 2019, Dolatowski appeared in Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court after violating a community payback order, with prosecutors warning she was involved in “suspect behaviour” related to internet activity.
She previously admitted to sexually assaulting a child and filming another girl in a toilet; her first assault occurred at the Halbeath Asda in February 2018, where she was spotted with a mobile phone over a partition.
Weeks later, in March, she attacked a 10-year-old girl at Morrisons in Kirkcaldy, grabbing her face, forcing her into a cubicle, and threatening her and her mother.
She narrowly avoided jail but was given a three-year community payback order, banned from contacting children, and registered as a sex offender.
An oversight in her supervision order initially allowed her to delete online chat histories, raising concerns about potential further misconduct.
Dolatowski, who is now on an electronic tag, also breached her order twice by missing appointments.
Her defense argued she was struggling with benefits and transportation issues, but Sheriff James Williamson emphasized the importance of compliance, stating that hiding digital communications would constitute a breach leading to imprisonment.
In February 2019, a mother criticized the community sentence given to Dolatowski after her girl was attacked in a supermarket toilet.
The mother, who requested anonymity, expressed her frustration that her attacker, who identifies as female but was perceived as male by her daughter’s family, was released into the community and not jailed.
The assault took place in Morrisons, Kirkcaldy, and involved Dolatowski grabbing the girl and demanding she remove her trousers, with the girl punching her attacker to escape.
The mother said, “I don’t have any confidence whatsoever that he will not go out and do something equally as bad or worse.” She expressed horror that her daughter had been stalked in such a manner and suffered ongoing trauma.
The victim, a schoolgirl, was able to fight back during her ordeal, which she described as terrifying and lingering with her.
Dolatowski’s background includes mental health issues and long-term social care involvement since childhood, but her mother strongly condemned her actions, stating: “He is a paedophile and he has been let out on a supervision order.” Sheriff Williamson imposed a stringent community-based sentence, prohibiting contact with children and ordering supported accommodation following her release from youth detention, citing her moderate risk of reoffending but emphasizing public protection.
