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

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On 27/09/2019 at 06:05, ian1964 said:

 

All that's missing from this article is the very close relationship between Cairney and Tommy Burns a very close friendship .

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Paedo kitman Jim McCafferty continued career in football after abuse claims

The Daily Record can reveal that McCafferty was able to work with Hibernian and Falkirk after he was sacked by Celtic Boys Club for a series of abuse claims during the 90s.

Paedophile kitman Jim McCafferty was reported to police and the SFA over abuse claims in the 90s but was able to continue his career in Scottish football, the Daily Record can reveal.

McCafferty was sacked by Celtic FC when an angry parent confronted him in 1996 over an allegation of sexual assault.

The police were called in to investigate but he wasn’t prosecuted and continued to work in Scottish football following a break in Ireland.

McCafferty was finally snared after the Record extracted a full confession from him. Earlier this year, he was jailed for abusing young footballers.

The pervert, now 73, was a coach and kitman for the Celtic youth team. He also worked for Celtic Boys Club. He headed to Ireland for “family reasons” after being sacked by Celtic.

But he was later able to slip back into Scotland and resume his career in football with Hibernian and Falkirk.

 

He later carried out repeated sexual abuse of a boy in Northern Ireland, who was 13 at the time.

Police Scotland confirmed that they investigated abuse claims against McCafferty in the 90s but he was never prosecuted.

A spokeswoman said: “Inquiries were carried out in the 90s into allegations made at that time.

“No charges were brought.”

One of his victims last night demanded to know why McCafferty wasn’t prosecuted in the 90s and how he was able to resume his career in youth football.

The victim said: “This is disgusting. To think it was known he was a paedophile and it did not seem to affect his career is shattering to me.

“If I had known in 1996 that there were other victims, I would have come forward at that point.

“Instead, I lived with that abuse for another 20 years.

Previously, it was thought McCafferty left Celtic because abuse claims relating to a time before he joined the club began to emerge.

But the Record understands he was sacked by Celtic and reported to the police and the SFA in 1996 as a result of the intervention of an irate parent at a club social event he had attended.

The then Celtic supremo Fergus McCann sacked McCafferty.

It is not known who reported him to police.

A source said: “It is clear that McCafferty was outed by a parent at a social event and that was why he disappeared from Celtic.

“He was confronted by an angry parent. But somehow McCafferty simply left the country, saying he had a family issue in Ireland.

“Then, a wee while later, he’s back in Scotland and he’s back working as a football coach. How could that have been allowed to happen?

“At the very least, any disclosure process should have identified him as a risk to young boys. And he should have been properly investigated by both the police and the SFA .

“But instead, this vile predator was allowed to continue working in Scottish football as if he was a normal person. It beggars belief.”

The victim added: “It is absolutely sickening. I look on it as another 20 years of my life wasted. I’ve carried this, thinking that I was the only person who was abused.

“If that had come out in 1996, I wouldn’t have hesitated in coming forward about my abuse. That’s the impact this has.

“There’s not one person in the world I spoke to about the abuse until that day I phoned the Daily Record .

“My own family didn’t even know. Even then, it was because of what I saw with the abuse in football emerging in England.

“I thought, ‘My god, finally I’m going to speak to someone about this’.”

The victim’s testimony in 2016 led the Record to track down McCafferty in Northern Ireland.

The SFA is conducting an independent review of sexual abuse in Scottish football.

Investigations are being carried out by a former detective superintendent and a Children 1st specialist. McCafferty admitted his years of abuse when we confronted him in 2016.

He was convicted of the offences in Northern Ireland, carried out when he was aged 66 to 68.

At the High Court in Edinburgh in May this year, he admitted 12 charges related to child sex abuse against 10 teenage boys between 1972 and 1996.

He was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison to add to the three years and nine months jail term he was given in Northern Ireland.

Most of McCafferty’s victims played for youth teams he ran in North Lanarkshire.

Four played for Celtic Boys Club and Celtic youth team. They were aged between 14 and 17.

Some victims developed mental health problems as a result of the abuse.

Judge Lord Beckett said McCafferty was “physically intimidating” and used his “overpowering” nature to achieve his “depraved objectives” of abusing young boys.

He added: “You were adept at identifying the circumstances of different boys so that you could manipulate them and, in some cases, their parents in a variety of ways.

“All of this was done to facilitate your sexual abuse of children.”

McCafferty had previously said he did not know the true number of boys he abused.

He was the fourth man connected to either Celtic or Celtic Boys’ Club to be found guilty of historical child sex abuse.

Last November, Boys’ Club founder Jim Torbett, 71, was jailed for six years for sexually abusing three boys over eight years.

Earlier this year, Boys’ Club former chairman, Gerald King, 66, was given a three-year probation order for sexually abusing four boys and a girl in the 80s.

And in February, Frank Cairney, 84, a former manager of the Boys’ Club, was jailed for four years after being convicted of nine charges of sexually abusing young footballers.

No one at the SFA was available for comment.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/paedo-kitman-jim-mccafferty-continued-20331939?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

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On 27/09/2019 at 06:05, ian1964 said:

 

Good read that. And what most folk have known for a long time, one side spinning the life out of one story and keeping the lid firmly shut on the other.

 

"All SFA member clubs (and this includes Rangers) should be ashamed of themselves."

 

I cant help but agree with this line. Rangers have a duty to protect itself, write its own history and set the record straight on many subjects. We lost 4 years (minimum) no amount of dignified silence will buy that back. 

 

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No one at the SFA was available for comment.

 

time someone investigated the SFA. They clearly can't be trusted to do it themselves. 

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On 03/10/2019 at 11:57, the gunslinger said:

No one at the SFA was available for comment.

 

time someone investigated the SFA. They clearly can't be trusted to do it themselves. 

They are too busy hiding under their desks hoping this scandal will go away.

 

It won't and it will hopefully take some heads at the SFA with it. They have been nothing short of a disgrace.

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Scots footie coaches can take one-to-one kids’ sessions WITHOUT passing criminal record checks

FOOTIE coaches can take one-to-one kids’ sessions without passing criminal record checks, it has emerged.

Authorities place no obligation on trainers undergoing child welfare courses and obtaining disclosure papers before starting solo work.

The loophole has been slammed by qualified coaches and former players, who warned it risked kid safety.

Kevin Thomson, 34, told how he gained his Protecting Vulnerable Groups certificate as part of his new career.

The ex-Rangers and Hibs ace, who runs his own academy and coaches youngsters at Ibrox, said: “It was as important as getting my SFA coaching badges. I wanted to do all the welfare courses about mental health and wellbeing.

“And I had to have the PVG certificate to work with Rangers’ youths, but I would have got it anyway.

“I think that anyone running coaching courses — one-to-one, small groups or taking large groups for coaching sessions — should have all the same qualifications and safeguards as we do.

“If they don’t have them in place, the Scottish Youth Football Association need to find a way to regulate this part of football coaching.”

Ex-Scotland international Thomson is one of a number of retired players offering one-to-one and small group coaching sessions focussed on raising skill levels.

But one director of an Edinburgh coaching company, who asked not to be named, said: “If someone wants to get into this field because they want to get access to children, there is nothing to stop them.

“Our organisation has PVG and welfare certificates in place for all coaches. We know other organisations where that’s not the case.

“I don’t know anyone in this industry who doesn’t have the best intentions, but if you ask me is it completely without risk, I have to say no.

“The onus has to be on parents to ask questions. Ask if they have their PVG, or if anything else makes them uncomfortable, they should take their kid elsewhere.”

Tam Smith of Hutchison Vale Boys’ Club in Edinburgh said increased safeguards on clubs in recent years had to be applied elsewhere.

He warned: “While people are allowed to run a business coaching children one-to-one or in small groups without being regulated to the same standards as the clubs, we are taking a chance.

"It is likely someone will suffer for it.”

The Scottish Sun on Sunday unmasked ex-Rangers scout Harry Dunn, who was facing trial over a string of abuse allegations when he was found dead in 2017 aged 85.

We told how Ibrox coach Gordon Neely was axed over claims in 1990. He died from cancer in 2014 at 62.

And Frank Cairney was jailed for four years in February — one of four beasts convicted from Celtic Boys Club.

The Scottish FA referred us to the SYFA for comment.

A spokesman for the youth association said: “We don’t have jurisdiction over school football teams and professional clubs.

"In the same way, we can’t dictate rules to people setting up a coaching business.”

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/4802327/football-abuse-coaches-kevin-thomson-rangers-celtic/

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