RAPE VICTIM WAS SENT TO MENTAL UNIT
Beast given 10 years for attacks on girls
A CHILD rapist who saw one of his victims committed to a mental institution after she reported his offending was jailed for 10 years yesterday.
David Scott, 65, inflicted an appalling catalogue of sexual abuse on two girls more than 30 years ago.
A jury convicted him of five charges of abuse and rape last month.
Scott’s first victim was only 11 when she complained about his abuse and ended up in a unit for mentally disturbed teenagers.
In order to be released, the girl had to take back her complaints against Scott and say sorry to her abuser.
A judge condemned the “cruelty” involved in Scott “standing by and seeing a young girl committed to a mental institution”.
Lord Boyd of Duncansby said both victims made accusations of sexual abuse against Scott at the time but added that the way their complaints were handled did no credit to those involved.
Lord Boyd told Scott at the High Court in Edinburgh: “You were unanimously
convicted of five charges of rape and sexual abuse against two girls in the 1980s.
“You gave evidence on your own behalf and you were unable to persuade any of the jurors of your innocence,” he said.
Lord Boyd said it was apparent the children were nothing but sexual objects for Scott’s own gratification.
Scott began molesting his first victim in Glenrothes in 1982, when she was 10. He carried out sex acts and later raped her until she was 14 in 1986.
He preyed on the second girl from when she was aged 14 at a house in the Fife town and molested her once between July 1982 and July 1983.