Dirty, filthy old man

"It is a form of offending which elicits the strongest feelings of abhorrence and repugnance."

Mar 27, 2007 - Jonathan Quick, 71, was sentenced to eight months after admitting he sexually abused pupils in his care in the 1970's and early 80's.

One of the students, David Young, a medical student who had been taught by Quick in the 1990s, committed suicide in the Phillipines in 2002.. That started an investigation pursued by his parents. Three months later they discovered he had been sexually abused by a teacher at Dollar Academy in 1990 in psychiatric reports that cite the abuse as the main reason for his depression and subsequent death.

With the asssistance of a former detective, who had helped a number of families who had suffered miscarriages of justice, they tracked down 500 students, eight of whom said they had been abuse. Quick pleaded guilty. Other former pupils told The Herald of their feelings of guilt and anger about the abuse they suffered.

TT - the location is Scotland. The affront to human dignity doesn't stop at the abuse. With the child pornography victim, the pictures remain forever, traded like playing cards, collected by perverts over the globe. For those sexually abused by authority figures, the shame, guilt, anger and vulnerability last a lifetime.