A quartet of paedophiles have been convicted of grooming and sexually abusing a 15-year-old schoolgirl in Castlemilk.
The High Court in Glasgow heard Aivars Hauberts, 21, Ailands Aleksanders, 22, Hardis Gindra, 27, and Ludvigs Rudevics, 35, treated the schoolgirl as a “sex object”.
Hauberts, Aleksanders and Rudevics were found guilty last week of raping the teenager and co-accused Gindra was convicted of having under-age sex with her.
All four of the sex offenders are originally from Latvia.
Prosecutor Bernard Ablett told the court: “They groomed and sexually exploited her and used her as nothing other that a sex object.”
Judge Lord Armstong put all four on the sex offenders’ register and deferred sentence until next month for background reports.
Their victim, who is now 19 and lives in Glasgow, told Ablett she drank vodka and Mad Dog at a birthday party in June 2015 and was “extremely drunk”.
She sobbed as she told of how Hauberts and Aleksanders, who were at the party at a flat in Burnfield Road, in the city’s Thornliebank, then raped her.
The victim also told the court that Rudevics raped her at a flat in Ardencraig Road, Castlemilk, the following month, after offering her a place to stay for the night, and that Gindra had under-age sex with her at an unknown location.
The girl said she was introduced to the four by a schoolfriend.
