Celtic face threat of multimillion pound compensation claim(The Times)

BBC Scotland Disclosure, announce their intentions as such.

Current affairs series examining the issues affecting the lives of people around Scotland.

Given the gravity of abuse that went on at Celtic Football Club, you would think that the producers of this Current Affairs programme that proclaims to, examine the issues that affect the lives of people around Scotland would be all over these disgusting acts of Child Sexual Abuse perpetrated by a known Paedophile Ring harboured at Celtic Football Club.

But, then again...................
It is always worth remembering that practically ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to do with the Catholic faith in Scotland passes through the desk of Peter Kearney Director of The Catholic Media Office. Once of Opus Dei, although as Peter once joked after a tad too much of the 'blood of Christ' "no one is ever really ex Opus Dei, we are simply under cover...".
 


The man who authorised the creation of Celtic’s scandal-hit feeder club assured parents that their children would come to “no harm” if they joined.


As chairman of Celtic FC Sir Robert Kelly vouched for the coaching staff at Celtic Boys Club, describing them as men of “vast character”.


Jim Torbett, whom Kelly allowed to launch and lead the boys’ club in 1966, was later convicted of sexually abusing young players between 1967 and 1974.


However, it has emerged that in 1971 Kelly, a former president of the Scottish FA, told parents that their boys were at no risk of harm if they signed up. The fact that he felt obliged to say so suggests that concerns for child welfare at the club had been circulating at the time.


Kelly made the comments in his book Celtic, which was published weeks before his death, aged 68, in September 1971. He wrote: “I feel that no father or mother should have the slightest diffidence about letting a youngster come to join us at Celtic Park.


“There is a vast amount of character in the men in whose hands the youngsters are placed.


“We make bold to say that whatever good can come of youngsters joining up they will certainly come to no harm through their association with Celtic.”


In 1966 Kelly and Jock Stein, the Celtic manager, gave permission for Torbett to start the boys’ club using Celtic’s name, crest and colours.


In 1998 Torbett was jailed for molesting players including the future Scotland striker Alan Brazil. He was imprisoned for another six years in 2018 for sexually abusing boys between 1986 and 1994. The youngest was aged five.


Last year it emerged that Torbett ran Celtic FC’s chain of club shops in the early 1990s and organised testimonial events for first-team players.


In the past two years Jim McCafferty, a former Celtic FC kit man and boys’ club coach, has admitted 12 child sexual abuse charges and Gerald King, a one-time boys’ club chairman, was convicted of abusing four boys and a girl while working as a teacher.


Last year Thompsons Solicitors, which represents 25 people who claim they were molested at the boys’ club over three decades, lodged papers on behalf of one survivor who is seeking damages from Celtic FC. The test case will be heard in the next few months.


Celtic FC strongly contests the claims, insisting that the boys’ club was an entirely separate entity with which it had “historic connections”. In 2018 Celtic claimed that abuse allegations within the boy’s club “first emerged in the 1990s”. It was later revealed that in 1986 the senior club had held an investigation which exonerated Torbett and other coaches after serious concerns were raised by parents and boys.


Celtic FC did not respond to a request for comment.

 
I was only starting out then and my father hated him with a passion too. Unashamedly bigoted man with a mindset nearer to Lennon, ie rough and ready, than Lawwell's sleekit manner.

Lawwell’s proving again he’s just a gangster with a suit on mate.

Kelly must have been bad.

It makes you wonder WHY he would come out with that statement back then ? It almost has a defensive tone to it, as if things were happening even at that time ?
 
Lawwell’s proving again he’s just a gangster with a suit on mate.

Kelly must have been bad.

It makes you wonder WHY he would come out with that statement back then ? It almost has a defensive tone to it, as if things were happening even at that time ?
Yes it definitely suggests that he was trying to put out fires as far back as that.

Your summation of Lawwell fits perfectly. We're seeing that again this week. Lest we forget he has to do what the il compare in Dublin says.
 


The man who authorised the creation of Celtic’s scandal-hit feeder club assured parents that their children would come to “no harm” if they joined.


As chairman of Celtic FC Sir Robert Kelly vouched for the coaching staff at Celtic Boys Club, describing them as men of “vast character”.


Jim Torbett, whom Kelly allowed to launch and lead the boys’ club in 1966, was later convicted of sexually abusing young players between 1967 and 1974.


However, it has emerged that in 1971 Kelly, a former president of the Scottish FA, told parents that their boys were at no risk of harm if they signed up. The fact that he felt obliged to say so suggests that concerns for child welfare at the club had been circulating at the time.


Kelly made the comments in his book Celtic, which was published weeks before his death, aged 68, in September 1971. He wrote: “I feel that no father or mother should have the slightest diffidence about letting a youngster come to join us at Celtic Park.


“There is a vast amount of character in the men in whose hands the youngsters are placed.


“We make bold to say that whatever good can come of youngsters joining up they will certainly come to no harm through their association with Celtic.”


In 1966 Kelly and Jock Stein, the Celtic manager, gave permission for Torbett to start the boys’ club using Celtic’s name, crest and colours.


In 1998 Torbett was jailed for molesting players including the future Scotland striker Alan Brazil. He was imprisoned for another six years in 2018 for sexually abusing boys between 1986 and 1994. The youngest was aged five.


Last year it emerged that Torbett ran Celtic FC’s chain of club shops in the early 1990s and organised testimonial events for first-team players.


In the past two years Jim McCafferty, a former Celtic FC kit man and boys’ club coach, has admitted 12 child sexual abuse charges and Gerald King, a one-time boys’ club chairman, was convicted of abusing four boys and a girl while working as a teacher.


Last year Thompsons Solicitors, which represents 25 people who claim they were molested at the boys’ club over three decades, lodged papers on behalf of one survivor who is seeking damages from Celtic FC. The test case will be heard in the next few months.


Celtic FC strongly contests the claims, insisting that the boys’ club was an entirely separate entity with which it had “historic connections”. In 2018 Celtic claimed that abuse allegations within the boy’s club “first emerged in the 1990s”. It was later revealed that in 1986 the senior club had held an investigation which exonerated Torbett and other coaches after serious concerns were raised by parents and boys.


Celtic FC did not respond to a request for comment.

Great work by the team, this must give the victims hope and comfort too know they are not alone, once again well done
 
Concealing what he knew, with words of deflection.

What's worse.

The Paedophile, or a person/persons that knew of these disgusting acts of Child Sexual Abuse.

Celtic Football Club.

3 words that should bring disgust to anyone that finds Child Sexual Abuse totally and utterly unacceptable.

So why the silence from the authorities, be that from the SFA or the Scottish Government.

I am aware at this time, certain protocol has to be adhered to, but the aboves total lack of attention in relation to the Child Sexual Abuse that was knowingly perpetrated at Celtic Football Club over a period of 5 decades or more, is alarmingly impermissible to say the least and to be perfectly honest, it's a disgusting attitude given the extent of the abuse committed at that Football Club.

Their silence, is an abuse of power and I find that to be collectively insensitive to the point of being repulsive.

The victims had to live in silence and with their silence broken, they now encountered silence from the very people that should've been there to protect them.

Again, repulsive behaviour.

Silence Is Not Justice.

Silence is only justice, when it is broken and the appropriate authorities act accordingly.

Act Accordingly...........
 
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That gushing praise of a man who cheated on his wife and knew about abuse as far back as 1968(so bad he pulled his own son without explanation from CBC)

Knowing what we know now how can any right thinking person hold this fat rat bag in any kind of esteem...it mystifies me
A man who knew his players wife had lost their child at birth and didn't tell him.

A bigger piece of shit you'd struggle to find.
 
Just checking to see if Celtics Court case if scheduled for this month? Sorry if already posted, interested to se if postponed again due to covid.
 
I don’t think any internal investigations have took place. Attempts to cover up and hope it went away is probably more like it.

The paedo club have stated that their insurers were carrying out an investigation. A two-year investigation (at that time, longer now) they’d have us believe.

The only reason an insurer would carry out an investigation, IF that did even happen, would be to asses their potential liabilities. They are not concerned with anything else at the club, why would they be?

Yet another deflection tactic from that rancid organisation.
 
The paedo club have stated that their insurers were carrying out an investigation. A two-year investigation (at that time, longer now) they’d have us believe.

The only reason an insurer would carry out an investigation, IF that did even happen, would be to asses their potential liabilities. They are not concerned with anything else at the club, why would they be?

Yet another deflection tactic from that rancid organisation.
Personally I wouldn't give any of the shite they have come away with the time of day

The team here have shown them to be pathalogical liars
 
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