Celtic Boys Club founder Jim Torbett has been found guilty of four charges of sexually abusing a young player.
Celtic Boys Club founder Jim Torbett has been found guilty of four charges of sexually abusing a young player more than 50 years ago.The indecent assaults went on for more than a year in his car, a flat and a toy shop in Glasgow.The former football coach will serve the sentence after his current six-year jail term for a previous historical sex abuse conviction has ended.
Torbett was also charged with using lewd, indecent and libidinous practices towards the boy, as well as touching him on the body while he was asleep at a flat in Sighthill.Judge Andrew Cubie told the 75-year-old he had used the football team "as an elaborate front for recruitment of your young victims".
"You had assessed his vulnerability and it is reasonable to conclude the interest you showed in him was for your own selfish sexual gratification," the judge said One of those who gave evidence against him relived his abuse for the jury in the latest trial because of the similarities in the type of assaults, the locations, the age and vulnerability of the victims and the timeframe of the late 1960s.
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