Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 5:16 am Post subject: Eight guilty in child abuse case
Eight members of a paedophile network have been found guilty of a catalogue of charges relating to child abuse and indecent images of children.
Neil Strachan, 41, was found guilty of the attempted rape of an 18-month-old boy and James Rennie, 38, guilty of sexually assaulting a three-month-old.
The Edinburgh men, and three others, were also found guilty of conspiring to get access to children to abuse them.
All eight men will be sentenced at a later date.
Colin Slaven, 23, also from Edinburgh, Neil Campbell, 46, John Milligan, 40, and John Murphy, 44 - all from Glasgow - Ross Webber, 27, from North Berwick in East Lothian, and Craig Boath, 24, from Dundee, were convicted of various charges.The jury returned the verdicts at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Two of the men, Strachan - who was jailed for three years in 1997 for abusing a boy - and Rennie, the chief executive of advice centre LGBT Youth Scotland, were convicted of sex attacks on children.
Strachan and Rennie were also found guilty of conspiring to abuse youngsters, as were Webber, Boath and Milligan.
Campbell was also accused of conspiracy, but he was cleared on that charge after the jury found the case against him not proven.
All eight accused in the 10-week trial were convicted of possessing and making indecent images and seven of them were found to have distributed images.
A charge of distribution against Slaven was withdrawn by the Crown.
The men were traced through their explicit internet chats about sexual fantasies involving children after the discovery of an indecent image of an 11-year-old boy on a work computer.
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