The paedophile manager of a children's home was facing a lengthy jail sentence today after subjecting vulnerable boys in care to "unspeakable" cruelty.
Peter Harley, 77, preyed on the children at a now-closed local authority institution in Moffat, in Dumfriesshire. Harley has already been jailed for 15 years in 1996 after admitting sexually abusing 16 boys at Merkland Childrens Home which he ran for several years.
He was later imprisoned for a further six years for further offences following another conviction at Cardiff Crown Court. After his latest conviction at the High Court in Edinburgh a judge told him: "You are a thoroughly wicked individual." Judge Michael O'Grady QC said: "It is to state the obvious perhaps, but you were in a position of the greatest trust." The judge said he had taken advantage of it in the most callous fashion to abuse two children he knew to be defenceless and vulnerable.
The judge said his cruelty was unspeakable and he had led "a virtual lifetime of depravity preying on vulnerable children". Mr O'Grady pointed out that he had two previous convictions relating to the abuse of children in children's homes in which he was working.
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