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GILLIAN SORBIE, A FORMER PRIMARY SCHOOL SUPPORT WORKER, WENT ON TO CALL THE CHILD A "FAT WH*RE". 04:30, 29 May 2025Updated 06:23, 29 May 2025 A child support worker has been struck

off after calling a little girl a "sl*g" and a "fat wh*re" on Snapchat. Gillian Sorbie, a former staff member at a primary school in Fife, was removed from the

profession after sending a catalogue of inappropriate messages to two kids, both aged 12, between March and October 2023. The former staff member, 41, communicated with the children online

after using their details to add them on the social media app. In a series of shocking messages sent to one pupil, she told the girl to "Go to f**king hell" and threatened to

"hurt her". The exchanges, published following a hearing by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC), read: "Go suck a f**k", that's what wh*res do, so anytime

you feel like it". In other messages, Sorbie told the pupil: "Go to f**king hell" and "just you wait till tomorrow you stupid fat wh*re". Article continues below She

went on to tell the same child: "F**k you, you're gonna hurt when I see you tomorrow" before going on to ask: "Are you dead yet?" In correspondence to another

child, Storbie arranged to buy the pupil a vape. She said: "I'm going to get yours in the shop round from me before I head down. "Any particular type or flavour you

want?" Storbie instructed the child to get in her car before exchanging the devices for cash. In the Snapchat message, she said: "What to do is, all of you give all the money to

one person, then that person can jump in my car and I'll hand over all of the vapes and they can dish them out after I've gone. "Don't want to be seen selling you vapes

in public so gotta be subtle. xx" She asked: "How many? Got to be kept quiet though. I can't have folk knowing I'm selling vapes to 11-year-olds, lol." Sorbie was

convicted of selling a nicotine product to a person under the age of 18 at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court in September last year. Her conduct was laid bare during a hearing at the SSSC last week.

The panel heard how Sorbie attempted to delete the messages as the parent of one child attempted to save them in a bid to conceal her wrongdoing. The watchdog banned her from working in

social care indefinitely. The SSSC ruling reads: "You provided two former pupils of the primary school where you worked with your contact details and then repeatedly contacted them both

on a social media messaging application. "This was further aggravated by the abusive and innappropriate content of the messages. "You offered to sell nicotine vape devices to a

child. This is an abuse of the trust placed in you by your employer and the parents of the children you were entrusted to care for." It added: "You attempted to delete messages as

the parent of one of the children was trying to save them in an attempt to conceal your wrongdoing. Article continues below "A warning would not be appropriate as the behaviour is

extremely serious and a warning would give no protection to service users or the public. "A condition would not be appropriate because the type of behaviour at issue is not the type of

behaviour which conditions would rectify." Sharon McKenzie, Head of HR at Fife Council, said: "As a responsible employer, we don't discuss the individual circumstances of any

current or former employees."