lifeguard 'molested teenage boy and his father in showers'

A scout master who molested a teenager 30 years ago on several occasions at a swimming pool went on to abuse the man’s son, a jury heard today.
Robert Major's copycat crimes were only exposed when the latest victim told his father he had been abused by the now 63-year-old.
The horrified father then revealed his own secret which he had kept bottled-up for three decades.
Aylesbury Crown court heard that Major had been a supervisor at a leisure centre swimming pool in the 1970s when he took advantage of the then schoolboy.
He had offered the 11-year-old free swimming sessions before manipulating him into participating in sexual acts in return, it was claimed.
In a bizarre twist, the police discovered the historic sexual abuse case on the victim, now 45, when his son came forward alleging sexual assaults by the same man in the late 1990s.
Police interviewed the father and were shocked to find he had also suffered at the hands of Major 30 years previously, said prosecutor Mary Loram.
She told the court the son, now 27, took 11 years to pluck up the courage to tell his parents and police of his shocking ordeal.
She said Major offered him cigarettes and alcohol and let him watch porn at his flat in exchange for sexual favours.
This, said Ms Loram, was a mirror image of what his father - who had suppressed the abuse for four decades - had been put through at the hands of Major.
He let the father swim at the Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre, in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, free of charge in return for sexual encounters in the shower room, bar area and changing rooms, it was claimed.
The jury heard that Major had been a Scout leader in Leighton Buzzard from the 1960s to the 1980s as well as holding a role as supervisor at the local swimming baths.

 

Ms Loram said: 'The son told his parents in 2009 that the defendant had done things to him sexually.
'Despite support from his parents he didn’t want to go to police at the time but his dad did want to do something about it and contacted police.
'It wasn’t until 2010 that he gave an account to police. Officers went to speak to his parents and his dad was interviewed.
'He (the father) went on to tell police how he knew Robert Major and how he went to the leisure centre as a teenager every day.
'The defendant worked at the pool and would let him into the pool free of charge. He told police how he went to the defendant’s flat and watched a soft porn film with him.
'Once he started looking back at what had happened all that time ago it all came out.'

Major is alleged to have let the father swim at the Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre, in Leighton Buzzard, free of charge in return for sexual encounters, it was claimed

The prosecutor added the pair performed sex acts on each other in the bar area of the leisure centre when it was empty, the showers, changing room and in the 'plant room' - an underground room which controlled the pool's temperature.
She added the acts also happened one time in the back of the defendant's Ford Cortina when it was parked outside the leisure centre.
The father told police he hadn’t thought about these things for 30 years, the court heard.
'Just like his son, he was made to feel this was normal and got cigarettes out of it. What teenager would say no to cigarettes, alcohol and porn?,' Ms Loram said.
Thirty years later, in a freak coincidence, Major continued his abusing ways with his former victim’s son,' the court heard.
This time it was at an address in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire in the late 1990s into the early 2000s when the boy was between 12 and 16 years.
Major denies eight counts of indecent assault, two counts of indecency with a child and one count of rape against the father between 1977 and 1981, as well as two counts of indecent assault, two counts of indecency with a child and one count of buggery against the son between 1998 and 2001.



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