
Transgender TikTok Personality Convicted of Child Exploitation and Indecent Assault
A social media personality boasting over 34,000 fans on the social media platform TikTok has pleaded guilty in an Adelaide court to a range of child sexual abuse charges. Presenting himself online as a “proud transgender woman,” Rachel Queen Burton who is 44 and resides in Coolalinga, Northern Territory, committed repeated acts of sexual abuse upon two young children and inflicted emotional trauma on another. The Adelaide Advertiser reported various offences were committed by Mr. Burton in regional South Australia in 2019 before he became well-known on TikTok. He was arrested and charged with child abuse and exploration offences in October 2022. Mr. Burton initially denied the allegations, before pleading guilty at a later hearing to aggravated counts of producing and possessing child exploitation material, gross indecency, and indecent assault....
