A Kelty Paedophile from Fife, George Grant, subjected a youngster to humiliation by rubbing his face in urine-soaked bedsheets and constricted a plastic bag over his head during a series of abuses against six children.
George Grant’s offences encompassed physical aggression, indecent conduct, or neglect towards his victims over a span of 13 years in Fife.
He assaulted a child starting at the age of four, frequently striking her, including an incident where he struck her head against a washbasin, which she says resulted in her tinnitus.
On one occasion, George Grant engaged in lascivious and obscene conduct towards the girl by persuading her to participate in strip poker and requesting that she disrobe.
He exhibited obscene flicks to her and made lewd comments.
The tribunal was informed George Grant exhibited pornographic videos to two other girls, engaged in tickling them, and caressed one on the breasts over her clothing.
They were aged between 12 and 16 at that time.
He intentionally mistreated, neglected, and abandoned four children in a manner likely to inflict needless hardship or harm to their health.
This involved persuading one child to consume food from the floor and another to ingest wine.
George Grant, 63, of Oakfield Street, Kelty, was found guilty by a jury of nine offences after a trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.
One of his victims recounted witnessing George Grant place a plastic bag over a youngster’s head and constrict it to the point of asphyxiation when the boy was approximately six years old.
The woman, now in her 30s, told the trial: “You could see (the boy’s) mouth was open and the bag was going in the way.
“I felt horrible (seeing that)”.
She also witnessed George Grant rubbing the boy’s face in urine-soaked sheets and telling him “he was a dog”.
Other assaults by George Grant included striking the boy’s head against a wooden staircase and with the back of a chair.
She also witnessed George Grant spraying a bottle of deodorant in the youngster’s mouth.
The woman said when she was four or five George Grant held her over a sink and shook her, intentionally causing her head to strike it.
She recounted other instances during which George Grant smacked her and struck her on the head and said he would “dig his fingers into ribs” leaving her sore for days.
Although no evidence was led in court regarding the cause, she blamed the “constant” tinnitus she has suffered since she was six on Grant.
She said when he was drunk his demeanour changed for the worse, adding: “He was like Jekyll and Hyde”.
The woman recalled him getting her to play strip poker and said she had been given alcohol.
Court papers say she was under 12 at the time.
She said: “He won and got me to take a sock off.
“(I said) how do you know you are always going to win and he said, ‘I know how to cheat.’
At that point I just left because I was quite disturbed”.
She said he showed her pornographic videos when she was aged about 13 or 14.
Asked by procurator fiscal depute Jamie Hilland and about the effect of George Grant’s behaviour, the woman said: “It’s mostly emotional abuse.
“His behaviour from the start to finish was absolutely horrible. He was a monster”.
George Grant denied the offending – between January 1992 and May 2005 – and told the court he was drinking heavily at the time.
A jury found him guilty by majority of two counts of assault on various occasions against a boy and a girl.
In the girl’s case, she was found to be permanently impaired as a result.
The jury returned unanimous guilty verdicts on seven other charges.
This included physical assaults on various occasions against another boy and girl which, according to court papers, started when they were both under the age of two.
It also included four charges of George Grant using lewd, indecent and libidinous practices towards three girls.
Sheriff Charles Macnair deferred sentencing until March 8 for background reports and remanded Grant in custody.
George Grant was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register.
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