SEX BEAST PREYED ON TWO YOUNG GIRLS FOR FOUR YEARS
Judge jails man after being told of ‘disease’
A convicted sex offender who molested two girls after his “disease” resurfaced was jailed for seven-and-a-half years on Friday.
Dean McGeachie repeatedly abused one child from the age of seven and his other victim from when she was aged eight.
McGeachie assaulted the children at his former home in West Lothian and carried out sex acts on them between 2011 and 2015, the High Court in Edinburgh heard. The abuse came to light when a mother asked her daughter if anyone had been touching her inappropriately and the girl revealed she had been targeted by McGeachie.
Her mother asked her how long it had been going on and she replied: “For as long as I can remember.”
During an interview with police the paedophile admitted offending and revealed that both victims had asked him to stop.
He said that sometimes he would cease but other times he carried on and told officers that they were crying at the time. McGeachie (57), who worked
as a lorry driver travelling extensively throughout the UK, was previously jailed for two years in 1992 for a sex offence against an 11-year-old girl.
He told police his latest assaults on child victims were a “disease” that he had locked away for years.
Lord Boyd of Duncansby said McGeachie had been assessed as a moderate risk of re-offending but added: “It is clear you pose a serious risk of harm to young girls.”
The judge said he had received a victim impact statement and letters and told McGeachie: “It is clear your behaviour has had a serious detrimental effect upon them.”
The court was told that one girl had become withdrawn and quiet following the abuse but the other has displayed anger at times and been referred to a psychiatric nurse.
Lord Boyd said he took into account that McGeachie’s guilty plea had spared the victims the further trauma of giving evidence.
The judge told him he would have jailed him for 10 years for the sex crimes if he had been convicted after a trial.
He ordered that McGeachie should be kept under supervision for a further five years.
Defence counsel Gareth Jones said: “He recognises that what he has done is wrong and more than that he recognises he has a problem.”
“He has surrendered his tenancy expecting to receive a prison sentence,” he told the court.
McGeachie was also placed on the sex offenders’ register.
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