February 2014
Child rapist jailed for prolonged abuse of girl with learning difficulties
A rapist who subjected a girl with learning disability to a prolonged ordeal of abuse has been jailed for ten years.
A judge condemned Steven Keogh’s sex offending as “crimes of unspeakable wickedness”.
Lord Uist told Keogh at the High Court in Edinburgh: “You clearly cared not what the effect of your deviant sexual conduct on her would be.”
The judge said: “You have shown no remorse, continued to deny the sexual offences and called her a liar.”
Keogh was earlier convicted after a trial of rape and other sex crimes against the girl at houses in Dundee and Broughty Ferry.
He began preying on the girl before she was aged 12 and continued the abuse into her teenage years. During one incident he told the youngster and a young boy to take off their clothes and lie on a bed.
He compelled the boy to touch her while he stood and watched them. Keogh also used physical violence on the girl and slapped her and struck her with a belt. He also assaulted two boys who were both hit with a belt.
Lord Uist told Keogh, who appeared in the dock for sentencing with a walking stick: “You are now 47 years old and have no previous convictions, which is about the only thing that can be said in your favour.”
The judge said: “The crimes which you committed must attract a lengthy sentence.”
He jailed Keogh, formerly of The Beeches, in Dundee, for nine years for the sex offences and a further year for the assaults on children.The judge told that he would be placed on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.
