The founder of a youth football club in Scotland was sentenced today to an additional three years in prison for sexual abuse the boy is 56 years old, according to local media.
Jim Torbett, 75, who founded the Celtic Boys Club in 1966 (a team associated with Celtic), is already serving a six-year prison sentence for sexually abusing six teenagers. Today he was convicted of similar acts against a 13-year-old boy in 1967.
Jim Thorbett was first jailed for two years in 1998 for sexually abusing three young Celtic Boys Club players between 1967 and 1974. He settled in California and was arrested on his return to Scotland following new allegations and a BBC documentary..
In 2018, he was jailed for six years for a series of sexual assaults against six young men between 1970 and 1994. Judge Andrew Camby ruled today that he was using the group as a “vehicle to recruit young victims.”
Jim Torbett contested the charges against him during a six-day trial.
Source: RES-IPE
Source: Kathimerini
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