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

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Celtic should be shut down. 

 

It can start again as St Catamite's FC, in the bottom division of any league which would lower itself to permit it entry. 

 

 

Celtic Boys Club founder ‘abused teenager in shop’

Marc Horne

David Love

Wednesday April 19 2023, 12.01am, The Times

 

Jim Torbett is accused of sexually abusing a boy he was tasked with looking after between June 1967 and December 1968

 

A former player with Celtic FC’s feeder club was sexually assaulted after being put to work creating souvenirs celebrating Celtic’s European Cup victory in 1967, a court was told.

The High Court in Inverness heard evidence that a teenage boy was indecently assaulted by the founder and manager of Celtic Boys Club in a toy shop that produced merchandise for the senior club.

The former player, who was 13 at the time, also alleges that Jim Torbett, now 75, made him wear the club’s shorts before attacking him as another boy slept in the same bed.

 

The claims were outlined in an hour-long video of a police interview with Torbett which was recorded in 2021 and played for the jury.

Torbett is accused of sexually abusing a boy he was tasked with looking after between June 1967 and December 1968. It is claimed that Torbett molested him at a toy shop in Glasgow’s Maryhill after he asked him to help to label miniature European Cup trophies.

It is claimed that Torbett exposed himself before seizing the boy by the neck and repeatedly attempting to force him to perform a sex act.

It is also alleged that Torbett attacked him in a car in the Drumchapel area of Glasgow and put his hand down his shorts and kissed him while he was staying over in a multistorey flat in the city’s Sighthill district.

Torbett told Detective Constable Diane Curran that he did invite players back to the flat he shared with his mother “to wash kits”, but insisted they did not stay the night. He also denied molesting the boy at the toy shop, stating: “It never happened.”

 

His alleged victim is expected to give evidence today.

 

Torbett denies all the charges. The trial continues.

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/celtic-boys-club-founder-abused-teenager-in-shop-smvm26fc6

 

 

 

 

Edited April 19, 2023 by Uilleam

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60 convictions for seven different Celtic FC employees now.  

 

There's coincidence and then there's straight up obvious.  

 

 

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46 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

 

Disgusting totally disgusting 

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10 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

 

It's a pity we cant hang these degenerates 

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