Celtic Paedophlia Thread

https://stv.tv/news/west-central/1433901-whistleblower-accuses-celtic-of-failing-sex-abuse-victims/

Whistleblower accuses Celtic of failing sex abuse victims

Gerry McSherry first raised concerns about young players being targeted in the mid 90s.

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Gerry McSherry: Spoke out in the mid 1990s. STV
By Russell Findlay

A whistleblower who exposed sexual abuse at Celtic Boys Club more than 20 years ago has accused Celtic FC of failing the victims.

Gerry McSherry first raised concerns about paedophiles targeting young footballers in the mid 1990s.

Now - following the convictions of three men - McSherry has called on Celtic chiefs to take responsibility.

The club maintains it was an "entirely separate organisation" from the boys club despite evidence of close connections between them.

McSherry, 66, said: "Celtic's position today is appalling. They should act in the moral sense.

"Forget the legal niceties - act morally and do justice for the weans that grew up and played for them.

"Celtic was founded on charity and they say 'oh it's nothing to do with us, two separate entities' ... my backside.

"They are avoiding their responsibilities here at the expense of the victims. It's the victims who matter."

Celtic fan McSherry first learned of the abuse from the club's official photographer Hugh Birt.

Birt quit as chairman of the boys' club in the mid 1980s and gave evidence in the first trial of its manager Jim Torbett in 1998. Torbett was jailed for 30 months.

Up until his death in 2013, Birt remained bitter at how the abuse was "covered up".

Last week, boys' club coach Frank Cairney, 82, was found guilty of ten abuse charges at Hamilton Sheriff Court - having been cleared of other charges in 1998.

It follows the second conviction of Torbett, 71, in November, resulting in a six-year prison sentence.

And former boys' club chairman and school teacher Gerald King, 65, will be sentenced in January after being found guilty of abusing boys and girls who he taught.

McSherry said: "Celtic Football Club should be ashamed of themselves for the way they treated the victims of Cairney, Torbett and King.

"But they should also be ashamed of the way they treated Hughie Birt. They isolated Hughie, ostracised him.

"He was treated terribly by Celtic."

A relative of Birth told STV News: "It is absolutely correct to say that Hugh felt let down and betrayed."

When McSherry learned of the boys' club abuse, he personally confronted Torbett, King and Cairney and passed information to the police and media.

He admits to throwing bricks through the windows of Torbett's former business premises.

And he was fined £100 in 1997 for making menacing phone calls to Cairney and turning up at his home.

He attempts to justify his law-breaking on the grounds that the criminal justice system failed in the 1990s.

McSherry, of Cathkin, Glasgow, said: "The police never took it seriously until I started papping bricks through windows.

"I can't arrest or charge them, put them on trial, get the verdict and jail them. I can't do that.

"All I can do is to get the attention of the police to take it up seriously so that they can nail and jail the beasts."

Police Scotland launched a full-scale investigation last year after the emergence of widespread historic sexual abuse of young footballers across the UK.

McSherry believes that Cairney and King should have been brought to justice years earlier - and warned that others have still not been caught.

He said: "I gave the police the names. 14 names, not two names.

"I gave them the names in 1995 and 1996. They only arrested Torbett and Cairney at the time.

"Clearly, serious questions need to be asked of the police."

He believes that both he and Birt were smeared for speaking out and admits that doing so took a huge toll on his personal life and "still does".

He added: "Hughie was totally discredited. So was I. I'm just a daft b******. 'Oh him, he's just a headcase'.

"That's what was going about. Does it bother me? Not in the slightest.

"It's not about me or Hughie being vindicated. It's about the weans, about them being vindicated.

"These beasts stole their childhood. And it takes them 20, 30 years before they say, 'wait a minute, it wasn't my fault'.

"But that's what they do, put the blame on the weans and they then live with that.

"You're football career is at an end if you talk about what happened. If you mention anything to do with this, your career is finished.

"Telling that to a ten-year-old, terrifies them into submission so they've got total control over that wean's childhood."

Police Scotland say their investigation identified 153 victims of child sexual abuse in Scottish football, resulting in 13 arrests.

Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Taylor said: "Most of the individuals arrested and charged for abuse as a result of that investigation, including Cairney, have now been convicted and sentenced.

"Cairney was a predator who carried out his abuse over decades, using his position of power to target his victims and to ensure that they kept quiet.

"Although reports were previously investigated by legacy forces, our proactive investigation revealed the extent of his abuse and gave a voice to his victims.

"He is now facing the consequences of his actions and I hope his victims will finally feel vindicated.

"We appreciate how difficult it can be to report abuse. We want to thank everyone who came forward and reported, we understand the courage it took and how difficult this must have been.

"Our assurance to anyone who has not felt able to report during this time, is that if they wish to report in the future - we will listen; we will investigate regardless of where or when the abuse occurred, and we will take prompt action to ensure that no-one else is at risk of harm.‎"

A spokesman for Celtic FC declined to comment.

 

"A spokesman for Celtic FC declined to comment."

In other words, too busy covering things up.

 

"Police Scotland say their investigation identified 153 victims of child sexual abuse in Scottish football, resulting in 13 arrests."

Just how many paedos were working at Celtic?

 

Are 'paedophles' Scottish paedophiles? The worst kind of paedophiles...

 

Wow, I mean, just wow.

 

Hi ER! How's life in the care home?

 

At least 14 going by McSherry.

They really are more than a Club and whole lot more.

Surely any right minded person would be going "enough is enough" and binning their obsession with Rangers.

 

This won't be appreciated by a few...

 

Rangers are dead mate, move on.

 

Wow, I mean, just wow.

 

this is brilliant

 

Poor Gerry McSherry, a victim of the Scottish Catholic cabal. Put your head above the Papist parapet and you are likely to get it shot off. Ridiculed and demonized for speaking up for the victims against the establishment.

It has happened all over the world. It happens in here. How many times have wee seen a certain individual rubbish the testimony given under oath of Hugh Birt?

Well the world has turned and despite the SMSM reluctance to do any meaningful investigation into the disgrace that was CFC for 40 years the truth will out.

There will be a reckoning and not just at Celtic.

 

So testimony under oath should be treated as fact? If only eh? it's not as if anyone has ever lied under oath.

 

Didn't read (any of it) lol

so what's the gist of this thread in anyways?

 

Celtic FC is a front for an international paedo ring spearheaded by G McCann

 

Gerry McSherry = monny

haha

 

McSherry sounds more like Aldo

Obsession led to turmoil in family life, arrest and lots of therapy

 

Plus he told the polis who did hee haw...but it's aw Sellik's fault

 

At least he told the police and didn't look away.

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