June 2016 Dad of ten faces jail for abuse of two teenage girls A father-of-ten who used to live in Barrhead is facing jail after being convicted of sexually assaulting two young teenagers. Robert Kerr could be caged for as long as five years for attacking the pair, who can’t be named for legal reasons, in the early 1990s. The 56-year-old was in his 30s when he abused the youngsters, who were aged between 13 and 15 at the time, between July 1991 and November 1992. After his trial this week he was also cleared of claims he sexually assaulted two girls at a house in Barrhead between 2010 and 2014. Kerr denied he’d done anything wrong and went on trial over the sex abuse claims at Paisley Sheriff Court this week. Two charges related to the two girls, whom he abused in the ‘90s, in the Thornliebank area. His trial heard he sexually abused his first victim between July 14, 1991 and July 13, 1992. He denied using lewd indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour towards the woman, who is now 39. But she told his trial that, at a house in the area’s Kilvaxter Drive, he was naked in her presence, exposed his erect penis to her, made her touch it, forced her to sit on his lap and made her perform a sex act on him. The younger girl, now 37, who was abused by Kerr between November 9, 1991, and November 9, 1992, at the same property, also gave evidence against him. Now 37, the woman told the jury Kerr abused her between the ages of 13 and 14. Kerr was also accused of assaulting two girls between 2010 and 2014. He denied abusing the girls at a property in Blackwood Street, Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, between August 1, 2010 and April 30, 2014. Prosecutors claimed he preyed on one girl when she was aged between seven and 11. He also denied sexually assaulting another young girl, between the same dates, in the same way, when she was aged between six and 10. And he was acquitted of the most recent assaults with the jury finding the charges in relation to those two girls not proven. But the jury believed the two older women, and found him guilty by majority of breaking Section 5 of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 1976. Claims that he had forced the first girl to perform a particular sex act on him was deleted from the charge by the jury before they found him guilty. Sentence on Kerr was deferred for him to be assessed by social workers and he will return to the dock next month.