Foster dad and his catalogue of rape

A former foster parent from Maybole faces a long spell in jail for raping and sexually abusing children.

Ronald Wilson, 65, from the town, was found guilty of the terrible crimes at the High Court in Edinburgh.

Judge Michael O’Grady QC told Wilson: “Over a period of many years you have preyed on a succession of children who you have abused and used for your own obscene gratification.”

He said the paedophile had shown “not a flicker of emotion” as his victims spoke about their ordeals, which took place in Maybole and Dunfermline.

Wilson had defiantly denied the charges against the three girls between 1975 and 1987 a a trial.

His first victim was five when she became the target of sex acts when he exposed himself and molested her at a house in Dunfermline.

A second girl was indecently assaulted by him at another house in the town and in a car on a number of occasions in the 1980s beginning when she was 15.

He exposed himself and carried out sex acts on her and himself. He went on to rape her in Dunfermline.

Wilson preyed on another little girl when she was aged just four and five at houses in Maybole.

The youngest victim, now 35, said she told a social worker at the time but it was “swept under the carpet.”

She said she was later contacted by a police officer and knew immediately what he was talking about.

When questioned whether it may have been another adult abuser she said: “No. It was Mr Wilson. I was a child. I wasn’t an idiot.”

Wilson was placed on the sex offenders’ register The Scottish Government wil be notified of his conviction under protection of vulnerable groups legislation.