'Oompa-Loompa' dwarf who harassed teen girls and paid for explicit images is jailed
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A dwarf who dressed as an Oompa-Loompa for hen and stag parties has been jailed for four years after harassing underage girls and paying for sexual images.
Marc Corrieri, 34, groomed a string of teenagers over a six-year period after making contact through social media apps.
The 4ft 2in pervert repeatedly sent sexual messages and asked for indecent pictures and videos of them having sex with their boyfriends.
Corrieri paid one girl £150 and another £40 to send him images of themselves in states of undress.
He admitted ten sexual offence charges involving six victims, aged between 13 and 17, with the offences taking place between 2019 and 2025.
Sheriff Kevin McCallum KC, said there was no alternative to jail and ordered he be supervised for a further two years on his release.
Corrieri, from Motherwell in Scotland, was placed on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely and banned from ever contacting any of his victims.
Neil Thomson, prosecuting at Hamilton Sheriff Court, said Corrieri told his victims 'he had a fetish for stockings and feet’ as he harassed them for their pictures.
Marc Corrieri, a dwarf who dressed as an Oompa-Loompa for hen and stag parties, has been jailed after harassing teenage girls and paying them for sexual images
The 4ft 2in pervert groomed a string of teenagers over a six-year period after making contact through social media apps
It was stated none of the victims were known to Corrieri and contact had been started by him on social media.
One girl was aged 14 when she was contacted by the sex offender.
Mr Thomson added: 'He sent requests to send images wearing tights and offered to pay for videos of her having sex with her boyfriend.
'She felt threatened and asked him to stop but he continued until she blocked him.'
The prosecutor told how another 14-year-old victim was contacted before he sent her £150 on PayPal telling her of his fetish.
Diarmid Bruce, defending, said: ‘He has engaged in a course of criminal conduct which is completely unacceptable and there is no justification for that. He has let him self down badly.
'He has never had a sexual relationship, is very isolated and perceived children as easier to talk to.
'He did not disclose that he is a dwarf and this was online escapism to avoid the usual social stigma he faces.’
Sheriff McCallum said: ‘The charges represent a persistent course of sexual abuse over a significant period of time.’
Corrieri had once worked for an events firm and dressed as a £150-an-hour Oompa-Loompa, a character from Roald Dahl’s Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
However, he quit after he was caught pestering school girls for sex – with him being put on the sex offenders’ register for three years in September 2014 and ordered to perform 240 hours of unpaid work.
Corrieri, in an interview about his job, detailed rules he imposed to preserve his dignity at parties.
These included no picking him up or throwing him, no tampering with his drink and not saying ‘midget’.
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