April 2000 Paedophile jailed for abusing three sisters A PAEDOPHILE who systematically abused three young sisters over nearly two decades was jailed for eight years yesterday. Father-of-ten Patrick Hogan, 59, carried out one drunken sex attack hours after a prayer meeting following his own daughter’s suicide. After his arrest, he told police he was ”the scum of the earth” and admitted indecently assaulting the girls, but he later pled not guilty and forced each to give evidence. His eldest victim, 38-year-old Mrs X, said the first attack happened in the 1970s when she was about 12. She said Hogan carried out indecent acts at his former home in Hawthorn Drive, Craigneuk, Lanarkshire. He had sex with her on a regular basis and forced her to carry out depraved acts. Mrs X, who came from her home in Italy to testify, missed almost all of her secondary education through truancy and ran away from home. Her 27-year-old sister, Miss Y, said she was the victim of sex attacks by Hogan at the same house, at his next home in Whitehill Avenue, Airdrie, and in his Hillman Avenger car. The third sister, Miss Z, 20, who is five months pregnant, said the abuse started before her first Holy Communion when she was seven. He made her perform a sex act and was sexually assaulted ”every other day”, including just after the suicide of one of Hogan’s daughters. Lord Carlaway told Hogan he had been convicted of extremely serious charges for which his drinking was no excuse. ”The damage you have caused is incalculable,” he added.