SCOTLAND
BBC News
A paedophile pensioner who preyed on vulnerable children in care at a church-run home faces a lengthy jail sentence.
Ian Samson, 72, serially abused young people and raped one girl at the premises where he lived in while his wife worked there as the matron.
Even after he severed links with the home, Samson continued to abuse children.
He wore a cross round his neck at his trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.
A string of victims relived their ordeals from the witness box and one woman, now aged 48, told the court: “I just thought it happened because I was in a children’s home.”
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