Former Foster Father Is Jailed For Raping Two Girls

A former foster father was jailed for 12 years yesterday after raping two girls and abusing other children.

A judge told Leslie Hanson: “You have been convicted of a horrifying catalogue of sexual crimes against five young females. All of your victims were under the age of 16”

Hanson, 65, raped two victims when they were aged 11 and 15 and molested three other underage children.
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Lord Woolman told him at the High Court in Edinburgh: “It is plain you embarked upon a campaign of sexual offences.” Hanson, of Four Trees, Drummuir, in Moray, committed the sex crimes at addresses in the Moray area between 1990 and 1998.

A jury took less than two hours to convict him of two offences of rape and four of lewd and indecent behaviour.

Defence counsel David Moggach said Hanson and his wife, from whom he is now divorced, had cared for 30 to 40 children.

Hanson has been placed on the sex offenders’ register.