Kirk Sharpe, now 27, was targeted from the age of 12 and endured four years of abuse after being fostered by Vincent Hill.

The market trader was only snared in 2013 when his victim bravely revealed his ordeal to his wife leading to the police being alerted.

Hill, 60, took Kirk to Rangers games and gave him freebies from his stall to buy his silence.

He also plied the schoolboy with cash, drink and drugs, threatened him, and told his victim he would circulate indecent photos he has taken of him if he told anyone.

Kirk’s ordeal left him so traumatised he tried to commit suicide.

Now married, he claims social work bosses failed to protect him when the pervert applied to be his full-time carer.

It’s alleged officials ignored warnings about Hill’s behaviour.

At the High Court in Glasgow in March, Hill was jailed for seven years for abusing Kirk over a five-year period.

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