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Article: He answered my lonely hearts ad ... then he abused my wee boy; Three single mums reveal how their families were snared by paedophiles who trawled through lonely hearts adverts looking for vulnerable victims.(Features)
- Article from:
- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- February 27, 1997
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Young mother Susan thought her prayers had been answered.
Widowed and desperately alone, she had sought love through the lonely hearts column of her local news-paper.
He seemed so nice, so charming ... and he quickly made friends with her five-year-old son.
The romance bloomed and led to a dream wedding.
WHAT SHE DID NOT KNOW WAS THAT HE WAS A SERIAL PAEDOPHILE ...
And that with patience and cunning, he had sifted his way through hundreds of lonely hearts adverts looking for vulnerable mums like her.
Susan, a member of ...