EAST LOTHIAN CARE WORKER JAILED FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT ON RESIDENT
A care worker who repeatedly sexually assaulted a vulnerable woman at a residential home where he was employed was jailed on Wednesday April 29.Robert Wilson kissed the victim and touched her breasts and vagina while she was living in the East Lothian home.
Wilson, 53, of Pine Street, Dunbar, in East Lothian, had denied sexually assaulting the woman and other charges during a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.
He was convicted of carrying out the sex attacks on her between August 2022 and February 2023 but was found not guilty of raping the woman on various occasions during that period.
The rape charge had alleged that Wilson assaulted the woman at the home while she was asleep and incapable of consenting and continued after she awoke.
Wilson was also convicted of raping a younger woman between January 1 and March 5 in 2013 at an address in Tranent, in East Lothian, who he forced to the floor and subjected to sex acts during assaults.
A judge told him the charges which he was convicted of by a jury were serious and the rape of the younger woman was "a very serious matter".
Lady Ross said the sexual assault of the care home resident was "particularly bad" because of the situation she was in.
She told Wilson: "She was somebody for whom you were supposed to care and that is something that means that what you have done is a bad thing indeed." The judge said: "You must understand these are things I have to take extremely seriously." During the trial jurors were shown footage of specially trained police officers interviewing the care home resident who said she had dementia.
She said she knew they were going to talk about "the bad man", who she called Robert.
The woman said he stuck something up her and she told him to stop it but he carried on.
She said: "It made me feel dirty." Wilson told the court that he knew it would be wrong for him as a carer to have sex with a resident at the home and added: "But that never happened." The judge deferred sentence on Wilson for the preparation of a background report on him and he was remanded in custody.
He was placed on the sex offenders' register and his conviction will be reported to Scottish Ministers under protection of vulnerable groups legislation.
