A 50-year-old Fife man has been found guilty of molesting two young children.
Stephen Blues sexually assaulted a girl on various occasions over a four-year period when she was under the age of 13.
Blues was also convicted of assaulting the girl by kicking her on the body to her injury on another occasion.
He also sexually abused a young boy on one occasion and assaulted him on another.
Blues went on trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court to face a number of allegations he sexually and physically abused young children.
Survived bridge fall
During the trial, video recordings were played of police interviews with the girl, who described how Blues would sexually assault her.
She said the touching began when she was about nine years old and “got worse after that,” saying that he would sometimes touch her private areas.
The trial also heard Blues, who previously worked in the care industry for vulnerable and homeless people, suffered from depression and survived falling from the Forth Road Bridge in 2012.
He was left in an induced comma for two weeks and needed intensive care for another seven before being sectioned and detained for 18 months.
Blues told the trial he was heavily medicated as a result of mental health issues and still is medicated for this.
Guilty
He denied all of the allegations against him.
But a jury took about two hours on Monday to find Blues guilty of sexual abusing and assaulting two children.
A fifth charge of using lewd, indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour towards the boy was found not proven.
The trial also heard that Blues, of Wemyss Street in Rosyth, had no previous convictions.
Sheriff Charles Macnair adjourned sentencing until June 22 for the production of background reports and remanded Blues in custody given the serious nature of the charges.
The sheriff told him the sexual assault on the girl was particularly serious and repeated.
Blues was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register.
