Hearts star Craig Thomson put on sex offenders' register

[CraigRFC 0]

Did Rix stand trial? Were the police even involved? I can only remember it breaking in the media. Pumping your mates 15 year old daughter. WTF?!?!?!

 

Aye he served 6 months I think although it may have been a year. Also was on the sex offenders register.

 

Although still wrong Rix's situation is far different to Thomsons.

 

A 15 year old lassie that is about to turn 16 is no where near as bad as a 12 year old!!!

[GovanAllan 0]

A fine give me strength. Sing the wrong song 5 years this crazy country is all upside down.

[Gazza_8 233]

Although still wrong Rix's situation is far different to Thomsons.

 

A 15 year old lassie that is about to turn 16 is no where near as bad as a 12 year old!!!

 

Really? Seems the same to me. Both underage!

[bluedan 93]

Disgusting, mud sticks with this sort of thing. He'll soon fade away and no more than he deserves.

[Danny 0]

I still don't know how he managed to get away with a fine and a slap on the wrist.

 

Any mortal would do time for this.

 

And yes, Vlad blamed the mafia on this one too.

[Danny 0]

Really? Seems the same to me. Both underage!

 

I see both your points. Underage is underage no matter how you look at it, but an almost legal girl doesn't quite have the same taboo attached to her as one who's barely entered secondary school.

[pete 2,499]

I see both your points. Underage is underage no matter how you look at it, but an almost legal girl doesn't quite have the same taboo attached to her as one who's barely entered secondary school.

 

If the guy himself was 16 then I would agree with you as the female is just a few months younger but the guy is a 20 year old adult and therefore must know that making sexual advances on anyone under 16 is a criminal offence.

Obviously he done the same to a 12 year old taking away any doubt of his intentions. Hopefully public opinion will drive him out the game and the Police and social services make sure he never offends again.

[ian1964 10,416]

THE mum of a schoolgirl groomed by footballer Craig Thomson called on his club to sack him yesterday and asked: "Have you no shame?"

 

Breaking her silence, she condemned the sex-shame player and his bosses at Hearts after they announced he would be kept on at the club despite his conviction for targeting her 12-year-old daughter and another young girl online.

 

She revealed the defender - who was a close family friend and had known his victim for years - bombarded her girl with obscene messages over nine months from January 2010.

 

The shattered mum, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told how Thomson, 20, begged the youngster not to tell anyone about him.

 

He made filthy comments about her appearance, tried to take her on drives and even sent naked photographs of himself.

 

Speaking to the Sunday Mail at the family home near Edinburgh, the 47-year-old woman said Scotland under-21 international Thomson had known exactly how old her daughter was.

 

He was put on the sex offenders' register for five years and fined �£4000 after admitting lewd, libidinous and indecent behaviour earlier this month.

 

The mum-of-three said: "Hearts are not taking this seriously enough. As far as we are concerned, Thomson has got off with this. He needs to be sacked.

 

"The only thing that will teach him a lesson is if he goes. Football is all he cares about.

 

"Hearts are a family club and if he continues in football, he is obviously going to be around children. But who would take their kids to a game when they know he is on the pitch?

 

"They obviously don't want to lose him because he is a decent player and could make them money.

 

"They should be taking notice and investigating this. But there doesn't seem to have been anything of the sort - we haven't even heard a word from Hearts about it.

 

"To us, he has been let off really lightly. By the time he is 25 he won't even be on the sex offenders' register anymore. And a �£4000 fine is nothing to him.

 

"He's meant to be a role model for kids and yet he has used his celebrity status to get at young girls."

 

The horrified mum, a support worker, said she had known nothing about Thomson's vile chats with her youngest child, now aged 13, until the police got in touch with her.

 

And when she heard how the player - who had been a friend of the family through the girl's older sister for around six years - had been grooming the girl, she was at first stunned then furious.

 

The mum said: "He was somebody we knew and trusted. It's not that my daughter was in awe of him because he was a footballer. He was a family friend she had known since she was about six.

 

"He went to school with my older daughter and he used to come about the house quite often. He knew the whole family from a young age.

 

"This was someone my older daughter was very close with. But while she was attending Hearts events that Thomson had invited her to, he was also grooming her little sister."

 

Thomson began chatting to the 12-year-old at a party they were both invited to and the next day he added her as a friend on Facebook, then began chatting to her on MSN Messenger.

 

The girl's mum said: "She would mention that she had been chatting to him and I thought nothing of it. I worry that I didn't pick up on that.

 

"I wonder if she was trying to tell us something but didn't know how to.

 

"He had asked her if she had told her big sister they were chatting. He told her he didn't think she should and that he didn't imagine she'd be too happy about it.

 

"A couple of days in, he had pushed her into speaking to him in front of the webcam.

 

"When I heard the things he was saying to her after the police became involved I was shocked and disgusted. He was commenting on her figure, saying he liked her big chest, what she was wearing and would turn up in places that he knew she was going to be.

 

"Nearly every time he was in contact with her he asked her to take her top off.

 

"He moved on to sending her pictures of himself naked and asking her if she thought he was big. She was a 12-year-old girl, it's disgusting."

 

The sickened mum added: "He was well aware of how young she was. At one point he asked her how old she was now and when she told him she had turned 13, he said to her 'I knew that' before saying what he wanted to do to her. It is disgusting.

 

"He also invited her to come to his house for a sleepover, as long as she promised to walk around in her underwear. He tried to take her on drives and I'm just so relieved she didn't go with him. I dread to think what might have happened.

 

"I feel a bit stupid for letting this happen to my daughter. The worst of it is that if even if I had've known he was offering to take her out to McDonald's and that kind of thing, I would have just thought what a nice laddie he was. I wouldn't have thought he had any other motive than being nice to his friend's little sister.

 

"He disgusts me. If he was a total stranger who had come on and said that type of thing, then she would have deleted him straight away. But because she knew him, she thought there was a wee bit of protection.

 

"And it went on so long because she was frightened to say because he was a friend of the family."

 

The family are unsure how Thomson came to be investigated but the mum told how when her daughter went to the police station about it, there were four other girls there too and she knew three of them.

 

She said: "He has been found guilty of two, but there is probably lots more. This is a 20yearold footballer who could probably have any girl he wanted, yet he chooses to hang around at schoolgirls' parties."

 

I SHOOK WHEN I SAW HIM

 

THE VICTIM

 

Thomson's young victim yesterday said the player's unwanted attention gave her the creeps.

 

The girl, now 13, said: "I used to see him around all the time, he was everywhere.

 

"I would always put my head down or put sunglasses on to try and avoid him. I just hated seeing him.

 

"I used to shake when I did. He was always commenting on what I was wearing if I saw him. One time he drove past and waved and then later he asked if I was still wearing the leggings I had on earlier.

 

"So I'd wear things that wouldn't get his attention.

 

"I was scared to tell my mum and sisters in case they thought I had done something wrong. I was relieved once it all came out.

 

"When I look back I think 'How did I ever think that was okay?' but I think I thought to myself that he was a friend of my family, and also a footballer, so surely he wouldn't do something that was wrong.

 

"Surely he wouldn't risk everything by doing something bad.

 

"Even when I see him now, he doesn't try and hide, he just stares right at me."

 

PUTTING MONEY BEFORE MORALS

 

THE AGENT

 

A top football agent yesterday accused Hearts of putting money before morality.

 

The players' rep, who asked not to be named, said: "The reason they have kept Thomson is quite simple.

 

"He's an asset to the club and is somebody they will feel they can sell for upwards of �£500,000 or maybe seven figures in a year or two.

 

"They have invested a lot of time training him and they aren't about to discard him now.

 

"This is a financial decision, pure and simple. If he was an ordinary 20-year-old they'd be delighted to get shot of him. He stays because he has talent.

 

"Football is littered with bad boys being given another chance and, as long as Thomson is doing the business on the grass, there will always be be a taker.

 

"Of course, there may be clubs who take the moral high ground and won't want anything to do with it, but there will be plenty clubs who won't care."

 

The agent, who has done business with Vladimir Romanov's club, said: "This whole thing isn't surprising to me. I have had a few dealings with the people at Hearts.

 

"They are unpredictable, to say the least, and are tough negotiators when it comes to money."

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/2011/06/26/victim-s-mum-reveals-full-horror-of-hearts-star-craig-thomson-s-depravity-86908-23228208/

[Gazza_8 233]

JJ in the papers today saying he won't pick Thomson.

[Danny 0]

JJ in the papers today saying he won't pick Thomson.

 

JJ will be fired for not towing Vlad's mad line.