Motherwell rapist jailed for 13 years
A Lanarkshire man who raped a schoolgirl almost daily for four years has been jailed for 13 years.
A Lanarkshire man who raped a schoolgirl almost daily for four years has been jailed for 13 years.
Anthony Jordan also attempted to rape another girl and sexually abused a third.
The 44-year-old committed his crimes over an 11-year period while their mothers were at bingo or out shopping.
Judge Lord Matthews told Jordan: “You were convicted of an appalling catalogue of abuse of young girls.
“One charge was particularly repellent raping a girl when she was aged between 13 and 17 on almost a daily basis. It was an appalling ordeal for the young girl. It robbed her of her adolescent years.”
Sick Jordan gave a thumbs up to family members as he was led away to begin his sentence.
His victims sat sobbing in the courtroom.
His rape victim , who is now 24, told prosecutor Jane Farquharson: “I can't remember if it was every day, but it happened whenever he had a chance to get to me.”
She described feeling scared and terrified the first time he raped her when she was just 12 and added: “I was feart to move.”
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons added: “Afterwards I curled up in a ball and cried.”
Ms Farquharson told the High Court in Glasgow: “This is a young woman who had been groomed by the accused to satisfy his sexual deviance.
“In evidence, Jordan claimed he was in a sexual relationship with the girl in 2014. This was nothing more than a last and defiant act by her abuser with no purpose other than to humiliate her.”
Jordan, of Motherwell, attempted to rape another of his victims, but every time he tried she would kick out and scream.
This victim, now 17, also told her mother she did not want her to go out to bingo, but did not tell her why.
She finally confessed to her mother what Jordan had been doing and the police were contacted.
Jordan's third victim was sexually abused after he began a “squeezing game” with her.
He also abused her during a visit to a swimming pool by inappropriately touching her as they came down the flume together and peering over the cubicle door when she was getting changed.
Jordan accused all his victims of lying and claimed the incident on the flume was accidental.
His victim, now aged 25, said: “If you were accidentally touching someone you would not have to be squeezing them.”
Jordan was convicted of raping one schoolgirl, attempting to rape another and sexually abusing a third girl.
The offences were committed between 2003 and 2014 at houses in Wishaw and Motherwell and at a swimming pool in Motherwell. The abuse began when the girls were aged 12 or 13.
Jordan has been placed on the sex offenders register.