Former Rochdale social worker guilty of five sexual offences
Date published: 17 May 2018
A former Rochdale social worker has been found guilty of five counts of historic sex offences after appearing at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court on Thursday (17 May).
James Peter Gavin, a former social worker from Rochdale, was found guilty of five sexual offences - between 1970 and 1978 a boy was sexually assaulted in Rochdale including at Foxholes Children’s Home.
Gavin (20/04/1936), of College Bank Way, who pleaded not guilty, was found guilty with a majority jury ruling of 10-2 and 11-1.
He was charged with four counts of indecent assault on a boy under 14, three between 1973 and 1975, and one between 1978 and 1979, plus one count of attempted buggery of a boy under 16 (Sexual Offences Act 1956) between 1978 and 1979.
He is due to re-appear again at Minshull Street for sentencing next month.
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