Celtic Boys Club manager 'stuffed banknotes in boy's mouth'

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And so the capaign to establish equivalence begins: we were all as bad as rasellik, which is of course, a bona fide excuse not to consider any sanctions against Pederasty Central

 

If, as said, Rangers advised the police about Neely on his dismissal in 1991, then those who were instrumental in his sacking, and in subsequent action, should surely be able to give a formal, sworn, deposition to this effect. 

 

A very disappointing headline from The Times, which manages to be sensationalist and, well, erroneous, in describing a multi-club predator.

 

The long awaited SFA Report will be published later today, I believe. We may learn as much from its tone and tenor, as from its content. 

 

Rangers paedophile raised funds for children

Marc Horne

Thursday February 11 2021, 12.01am, The Times

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rangers-paedophile-raised-funds-for-children-kvwpgzjgf

 

Gordon Neely, a youth coach, was dismissed from Rangers for indecently assaulting a 14-year-old boy in 1991

 

A prolific paedophile continued to abuse children and reinvented himself as a champion of vulnerable youngsters after being sacked by Rangers FC.

The Glasgow club has repeatedly insisted the police were informed after they dismissed Gordon Neely, a youth coach, for indecently assaulting a 14-year-old boy in 1991.

His victim denies this, while those investigating abuse in Scottish football found no evidence that the authorities were alerted.

 

Neely, who also coached at Hibernian, Dundee United and Edinburgh youth side Hutchison Vale, faced accusations but was never convicted before he died of cancer in 2014, aged 62.

However, evidence has emerged that suggests he was a serial abuser who worked with other paedophiles.

The Times understands that a number of Neely’s victims gave evidence to the independent review into sexual abuse in Scottish football, whose final report is due to be published tomorrow.

Neely was dismissed from his position as a youth officer with Hibernian after abuse allegations emerged in 1986. The police were never alerted and Neely was able to take a similar role with Rangers — which ended five years later when he admitted pulling a boy’s pants down.

After Neely was sacked an article appeared in the club newspaper, saying he was leaving to go into business. He was later hailed in a newspaper for doing a sponsored walk for deprived children at Edinburgh’s North Merchiston club.

 

A source close to survivors of his abuse questioned why he had been allowed to continue molesting boy after boy between 1980 and 1998.

A newspaper article from 1986 confirms that Neely established links with Celtic Boys Club — where dozens of youngsters were abused. One victim claimed he took him and other Hutchison Vale players to a tournament in Greater Manchester in the Eighties, where they were introduced to naked men at a pool.

 

Hibernian issued an apology for not telling the police. Rangers have denied any wrongdoing. The club previously said: “It is understood the individual was dismissed immediately and that the police were informed.”

 

Martin Henry, who led the review into child abuse in football, told the BBC his team had been “unable to confirm” whether a formal report had been made to police in 1986.

Rangers did not respond to a request for comment.

 

The long awaited report of the Independent Review of Sexual Abuse in Scottish Football, which was due to be released in 2018, comes out tomorrow. Martin Henry, its chairman, handed over the finalised report to the SFA, which commissioned it, last August. He was assured that it would be made public in September. In November Holyrood’s cross-party group on childhood sexual abuse called on the SFA to publish it in full. The final report is expected to recommend that the SFA and a number of clubs, including Celtic, Hibernian and Rangers, acknowledge failing to protect vulnerable young people and issue a public apology.

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Well, it's out, although I thought that it was being held back due to pending court cases. 

Maybe it's been bowdlerised instead. Perish the very thought!!

 

I'll try to find an Executive Summary, if there is one (which I doubt.)

 

https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/media/7516/independent-review-of-sexual-abuse-in-scottish-football-final-report.pdf

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Survivors snubbed in BBC football abuse series

 

The BBC contrives to leave survivors of abuse at the separate entity on the cutting room floor. 

The makers of a documentary on sexual abuse in football, came to Scotland, and interviewed survivors (a distressing experience for the victims I should think), but excised them from the final documentary. 

 

Another coat of whitewash. Or is it greenwash? Whatever the explanation, or rationale, or excuse, it will be hogwash. 

 

The SFA's "Independent Report" which appears to be nothing of the kind, and seems bowdlerised by Pederasty Central, itself,  and now the censoring of a major documentary. 

 

Is it me, or is there something sinister about all this?

 

From today's Times:

 

Survivors snubbed in BBC football abuse series

Marc Horne

Friday February 19 2021, 12.01am, The Times

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/survivors-snubbed-in-bbc-football-abuse-series-0vk087x3h

 

The BBC has shelved plans to highlight Scottish cases in a primetime series exposing sexual abuse in football, leading to anger from survivors.

Last week a report commissioned by the Scottish FA found that paedophiles infiltrated the national sport with ease and preyed on vulnerable boys and teenagers for more than three decades.

The Independent Review of Sexual Abuse in Scottish Football called on clubs, including Celtic, Rangers and Hibernian, to provide compensation and issue a “clear and unreserved” public apology to the dozens of victims who endured “incalculable” suffering.

Researchers working on a BBC 1 documentary series travelled to Scotland to speak to survivors of abuse at Celtic Boys Club after several senior figures at the feeder team were convicted for molesting young players.

The show claimed that the series, entitled Football’s Darkest Secret, would shine a light on historical abuse “all across the country”. However, only English testimony will feature in the three-part programme, which is directed by the Bafta-winning filmmaker Daniel Gordon and will be shown later this year.

“We were delighted when we heard the BBC were interested in telling our stories,” said one Scottish-based survivor, who asked not to be named. “We felt that at last, after everything we have gone through, our voices would finally be heard across the whole of the UK.

“When I heard that our contributions weren’t going to be used it felt like I had been punched in the stomach. We have been let down once again and it’s hard to take.”

A spokeswoman for the programme stressed that a BBC Scotland investigation, entitled Football Abuse: The Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game, first screened fours years ago, would be repeated next month.

A source close to the production said: “As part of the initial extensive research for the Football’s Darkest Secret project conversations were held with ex-Scottish players. None of them were interviewed on camera.”

A press release for the documentary states: “The series will examine abuse that has taken place in youth football all across the country, from Manchester to Newcastle, Crewe to Southampton.

“Three years in the making, Football’s Darkest Secret is the definitive account of this dark chapter in English football and the ensuing attempts to seek justice decades later. The series aims to shine a light on the damaging ripple effect caused by child sexual abuse and offers a unique insight into the way it impacts survivors and their families.”

The Scottish FA-commissioned report found that known paedophiles had worked together to groom boys and trafficked them over borders, within the UK and overseas, for abuse.

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What's needed is all the clubs named in the report to be investigated by an outside police force , then surely the authorities will have to act on the findings 

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Adrian Goldberg's film 'The Celtic Boys' Club Scandal' now released