April 2019 Alloa beast who abused girls as young as 4 took victims to watch prostitutes on streets A child rapist who took schoolgirls to watch prostitutes working the streets was jailed for eight years today. James Adam, 80, preyed on three girls during a catalogue of sexual offending committed between 1975 and 2001. Lord Pentland said he had engaged in manipulative and grooming behaviour to take advantage of victims for his own gratification. The judge said: “Regrettably, you have evinced no remorse or empathy for you victims and appear to have no insight into the harm your abuse has caused. “You must have thought you had succeeded in escaping justice for what you did.” Adam, who was brought into court in a wheelchair, had earlier denied a catalogue of offences committed against the girls over a 26-year period. But he was found guilty of five offences of indecency, a rape and an indecent assault following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh. The court heard Adam took two girls to watch streetwalkers plying their trade and later raped one at a house in Alloa, in Clackmannanshire, when she was aged 15. He exposed himself to the second girl when she was aged 12. Another victim was targeted from the age of four and repeatedly molested at addresses across Clackmannanshire, and Lanarkshire. Adam began his sex offending in 1975 after grooming a vulnerable girl from the age of 10 with car trips and cash. The victim, now aged 53, said that Adam would take her to an area of Glasgow during outings and showered her with attention. She said: “There was lots of women walking up and down. I now know it was a place for prostitutes.” “It all started when I was 10.” The woman said Adam would laugh at her and touch her and make comments about her body and get her to perform “sexual favours”. She said that on a few occasions she went to a former home of Adam in Alloa and told the court: “It was there when I was 15, that’s when he had sex with me.” She told advocate depute Dorothy Bain QC that he worked for the railway and she would visit the signal box where he was employed