Serial Stirling sex predator jailed over historic abuse on four boys

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A prolific Stirling child sex predator has been jailed for five years after being convicted over historic abuse on four boys over a 19 year period.Peter McCormick, 66, admitted being engaged in lewd, indecent and libidinous practices towards the children - who were each under the age of 13 - between the 1970s and 1990s.McCormick pleaded guilty to four charges at the High Court in Glasgow in May and was given the five-year sentence at the same court on Monday (August 5).He was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register indefinitely.His first victim recalled that he and his friend had gone to a house in the 1970s where they were plied with cannabis and alcohol by McCormick, who was 20 at the time.After falling asleep, the victim awoke to McCormick abusing him on a bed.The second victim was targeted in the same year when he was offered cigarettes and alcohol by McCormick, before again waking up to find McCormick abusing him.The third attack took place the following year when McCormick once again supplied the child with alcohol and encouraged him to continue to drink, going on to abuse him later that evening.The final charge relates to McCormick’s actions around a fourth boy in a three-year span in the 1990s.The victim in that case recalled McCormick being nice to him, before gradually asking questions of a sexual nature and showing him pornography, before once again attacking him.McCormick continued the abuse for a further two years at various locations.Police praised the bravery of McCormick’s victims for coming forward to help with receiving justice in a case which was labelled “complex and disturbing”.Detective Constable Ian Philip, of the Forth Valley Public Protection Unit, said: “This was a complex and disturbing case