JFK-1 1,693 Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 One of the men accused of child sex abuse in football in a BBC documentary has been tracked down to the US. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-39774853 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuGers 477 Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 It's good to see that this is actually being pursued. Maybe Celtic will actually be forced to lift the carpet after all these years. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFK-1 1,693 Posted May 3, 2017 Author Share Posted May 3, 2017 It's good to see that this is actually being pursued. Maybe Celtic will actually be forced to lift the carpet after all these years. Yep and according to latest reports he has now left the US because after discovering his past from the BBC program they were likely to at a bare minimum deport him. Ex-Celtic boys club coach Jim Torbett has left the United States and returned to the UK following a visit from US Homeland Security, the BBC has learned. Torbett was visited by officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) - Homeland Security's specialist investigative arm - within 24 hours of BBC Scotland's story on Tuesday. and agreed to leave the country voluntarily. A US government source told the BBC that Ice officers visited him in Modesto, California. They have not yet established that Torbett had violated any visa requirements, but advised Torbett that if it was established he had - and he was still in the US - they would look to apply the full effect of US law. The source also said Torbett volunteered to leave the US during the course of the interview. More http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-39797325 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 5,199 Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Yep and according to latest reports he has now left the US because after discovering his past from the BBC program they were likely to at a bare minimum deport him. More http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-39797325 I'm not sure how he wouldn't have violated any visa requirements - would he not have been on their stop list having been convicted of a crime ? And in order to enter the US you have to make a positive affirmation that you haven't been in jail. Maybe they would still have let him in had he completed the application properly but I would have thought that unlikely given the type of crime he was convicted for. I know people here in Bermuda who have been on the stop list for transporting personal quantities of weed - and they get stopped by US immigration every single time they travel to the US. And I know one who still has to travel through Canada and can't route through the US when travelling. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uilleam 5,948 Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 The man violated young boys over what we now surmise is a significantly long period of time. Violation of visa requirements pales to nothing in the circumstances. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacK1950 2,378 Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 With his 90 days nearly up he would have had to come home anyway but as far as I can think he might have been planning to disappear over there. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo 7,052 Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Surely its up to the police to arrest him and charge him if they think there's a case to answer . 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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