Jim Torbett the founder and owner of the Scottish club side, Celtic Boys Club, was on Tuesday sentenced to three years imprisonment, after being found guilty of abusing a young boy more than 50 years ago.
Torbett who is currently serving a six-year sentence for abusing six teenage boys, was convicted of repeatedly assaulting a 13-year-old boy in 1967.
The youth football team owner was sentenced at a court in Inverness, northeast Scotland by Judge Andrew Cubie.
Cubie told the 75-year-old that the impact caused by the attacks has been on his victim, causing him post-traumatic stress disorder.
“You caused significant damage, incalculable harm and blighted his life,” Sources quoted the judge as saying.
Torbett’s offence comes after a string of convictions of junior football coaches in England for a catalog of abuse against young players.
In 2021, an independent review of historical sexual abuse said the English Football Association demonstrated inexcusable “institutional failings” by not implementing child safeguarding measures.
News About Nigeria confirmed that the Celtic Boys Club was created by Torbett in 1966, and is closely associated with the Scottish Premier League side Celtic.
Torbett first faced jailed a two-year jail term in 1998 for abusing three young Celtic Boys Club players between 1967 and 1974.
He was at his residence in California when the latest allegations came out and was arrested upon his return to Scotland after a BBC documentary exposed him.
In 2018 he was jailed for six years for a string of sexual assaults against six young boys between 1970 and 1994.
Cubie said Torbett had used Celtic Boys Club “as an elaborate front for recruitment of your young victims”, for his selfish purpose.
