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

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Cairney, General Manager of CBC, for some 17 years (think about it :17 years; 17 years in charge) accused of child abuse;

as Rasellik View itself put it, he is:

“one of the great unsung heroes of the Celtic story” .

An interesting take on 'heroism', I would subnmit.

Or were the editors of the club weekly merely employing the same colossal irony with which rasellik 'family' identifies Sellik Park as "Paradise"?

No; me, neither. 

 

From today's Times:

 

Ex-boys club boss ‘abused players inside Celtic Park’

Marc Horne

Wednesday October 14 2020, 12.01am, The Times

It is claimed that the attacks took place at Celtic Park between 1978 and 1989

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/ex-boys-club-boss-abused-players-inside-celtic-park-k5fx8ggnm

 

A former senior figure at Celtic FC’s feeder club has been charged with carrying out sexual abuse at Parkhead and a training ground used by first-team players, The Times can reveal.

Frank Cairney, 85, served as general manager of Celtic Boys’ Club from 1974 until 1991 and is due to appear in court later this month.

Mr Cairney, of Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, has been charged with sexually and physically abusing three teenagers over an 11-year period.

It is claimed that he attacked the youths on a number of occasions between 1978 and 1989 within “Celtic Park football ground, Parkhead”, Barrowfield training ground, Glasgow, a hotel room in Aviemore in the Highlands and in a car.

An indictment, seen by The Times, alleges that on various occasions between February 1, 1986 and December 31, 1988, Mr Cairney indecently assaulted a youth, then aged between 15 and 18, at Celtic Park and Barrowfield.

Mr Cairney is also alleged to have indecently assaulted another youth, aged between 15 and 16, “within a car in Paisley and within a car and the dressing rooms at Barrowfield training ground, Glasgow”, between July 1, 1978 and June 30, 1979.

Between the same dates he is also said to have repeatedly punched and slapped the boy on the head and body in a dressing room at Barrowfield.

Mr Cairney is also alleged to have indecently assaulted a third youth, aged between 15 and 16, “at a hotel room in Aviemore and within a car in Cumbernauld” on a number of occasions between August 1, 1988 and June 30, 1989. He denies all the charges.

Celtic Boys’ Club took part in a series of tournaments held in Aviemore over a number of years.

Barrowfield, which is next to Parkhead, was used as a training ground by both Celtic FC and the boys’ club at the time of the alleged incidents. It is still owned by the club.

Mr Cairney took over as manager of Celtic Boys’ Club in 1974, replacing Jim Torbett, the founder of the feeder club.

Mr Cairney resigned from the club in 1991 after leading 20 teenagers and five adults on a summer tour to New Jersey.

On July 29, 1994, the Celtic View, the club magazine, lauded Mr Cairney as “one of the great unsung heroes of the Celtic story”.

He is scheduled to appear at Glasgow sheriff court on October 30.

 

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1 hour ago, ian1964 said:

 

Rather a long piece, which, ultimately, tells us little that we don't already know. Still, it puts it 'out there', and that is to be welcomed. 

Rather curiously -shamefully, perhaps- it neglects to mention the consistent stonewalling and rubber earing tactics employed, by ScotGov and the Sturgeon National Party, to avoid being seen to aid, or even to sympathise with, the victims, and, presumably, to bodyswerve anything, however based in fact, that might reflect badly upon, or "besmirch the good name", of the club like no other. 

Edited October 20, 2020 by Uilleam

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Meawhile, The Times reports on the -unarguably- shameful actions of the SFA in continuing to cavil, stall, and prevaricate over the release of its Report into child sexual abuse in the national game. 

It has been delayed, and delayed, and delayed, and one wonders if the SFA's continual evasiveness has been, solely, intended to grant sufficient time for redaction of the document, by those who would benefit from its bowdlerisation and the sanitisation of its contents, be they matters of fact, or matters of opinion.

 

 

Football abuse victims need answers now, SFA told

Marc Horne

Tuesday October 20 2020, 12.01am, The Times

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/football-abuse-victims-need-answers-now-sfa-told-vlzszc66p

 

The results of an independent review of child sexual abuse in football have been delayed on several occasions

 

The distress faced by survivors of sexual abuse in Scottish football is being compounded by delays to a review of paedophilia within the sport, MSPs have claimed.

The Scottish Football Association (SFA) commissioned an independent report into sexual abuse which was due to be released in 2018. A draft was published that year but the final version with victim testimony has been held back several times, prompting anger from those who gave evidence.

Fulton MacGregor, the convener of Holyrood’s cross-party group on the future of football in Scotland, said that he had raised the issue with Ian Maxwell, the SFA chief executive.

“This continued delay is a major concern for many survivors, no doubt causing additional anxiety and distress,” he said. “I wrote to the SFA last week to ask when they expect the report to be published and I am awaiting a response. I hope the publication date issue can be quickly resolved so the report can be made public at the earliest opportunity.”

Mr MacGregor, the SNP MSP for Coatbridge & Chryston, a former social worker, added: “Perhaps then victims can find some closure to the dreadful and traumatic experiences they endured while in football.”

Johann Lamont, the former Scottish Labour leader and co-convener of the cross-party group of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, said that she was “gravely concerned” by the failure to publish the report.

She said: “Clearly this report will include important recommendations for action. The SFA must make a firm commitment not just to publish but to provide a deadline by which that commitment will be delivered.”

Last month Martin Henry, chairman of the Independent Review into Sexual Abuse in Scottish Football, said he had handed over his final report to the SFA in the summer and had been assured it would be made public by the end of September. “It is up to them to comment on why it hasn’t been released,” he said.

The report was originally delayed to allow court cases linked to historic sexual abuse in football to be completed. More recently survivors have been told that its release has been held back because of the pandemic.

Victims and their representatives have suggested that the SFA and other prominent Scottish football institutions are looking to sideline a report that will highlight their historic failures — and could have consequences for scores of legal cases.

Patrick McGuire, a partner with Thompsons solicitors, which is representing six people who were abused by SFA officials and dozens more who were attacked while playing for senior and junior clubs, said: “The continued delays and excuses by the SFA for not publishing their own report into historic child abuse in Scottish football are simply inexcusable.

“It is deeply upsetting and disrespectful to the many survivors who went through the harrowing process of giving evidence to the inquiry. “This was the inquiry the SFA never wanted to hold and now it’s the report they simply don’t want to release.”

The SFA said that it hoped to release the document this month. A spokesman said: “The Scottish Football Association is equally keen to publish the report and hopes to do so as soon as possible.”

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1 hour ago, Uilleam said:

SFA

Clear and simple to make it easy for you Stop F*****g Around.

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[Scott7 5,151]

Which club?

 

A club like no other, obviously..

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