{"id":342938,"date":"2025-12-30T14:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T14:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342938\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T14:27:09","slug":"rapist-jailed-for-12-years-for-abuse-of-four-underage-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342938\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapist jailed for 12 years for abuse of four underage girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Advocate depute Martin Crawford, prosecuting, said: &#8220;These were experiences that happened when they were children, in circumstances which were outwith their control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court heard that one woman was left struggling with issues of trust and maintaining intimate relationships and had avoided the area where her abuser lived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defence counsel Andrew Crosbie said that Stobie was also the subject of an online vigilante &#8220;sting&#8221;, when he tried to obtain naked pictures from young girls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was, in fact, speaking to adults who live-streamed a confrontation with him at his home in August 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stobie admitted a four charges of attempting to communicate indecently with underage girls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Crosbie said: &#8220;He accepts that he has been convicted of offences of real gravity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stobie was jailed for 12 years and nine months and put on the sex offenders register indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was also given a non-harassment order prohibiting him approaching or contacting his four victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Advocate depute Martin Crawford, prosecuting, said: &#8220;These were experiences that happened when they were children, in circumstances which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-342938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}