A Toxteth man was found guilty of sexually abusing two boys in the 1990s.
Patrick Hampson, 56, faced seven separate allegations of indecent assault in a trial at Liverpool Crown Court .
He was alleged to have abused two boys, one when he was aged 11, and the second when he was aged between eight and 10.
Hampson, formerly of Corinto Street, Toxteth, but now of Lord Nelson Street, Liverpool city centre , denied the offences.
The jury were directed to acquit him of one of the charges by the judge Recorder David Turner, QC.
But this afternoon jurors returned guilty verdicts on the remaining six counts against Hampson.
Prosecutors said Hampson showed the boys his stash of adult pornography and even tried to hypnotise one of them before carrying out the abuse.
Lee Bonner, prosecuting, said the defendant was around 32 when he began molesting Child A.
He said Hampson made inappropriate comments towards the boy about them touching each other and showed him pornography.
Mr Bonner said Child A recalled feeling “intimidated” by Hampson and was warned not to speak out.
He said Hampson played with himself and asked Child A to join in, later performing a sex act on the boy.
Mr Bonner said: “He was more ashamed than afraid and after that incident he says that he managed to stand up to him and that it never happened again.
“He however didn’t tell anybody about what had been happening until years later when in 2006, at age of about 25, he told his parents and first spoke to the police.”
The lawyer said Child B became aware of the allegations, but only felt able to speak to police in 2014.
He then alleged that he too had been abused by Hampson from the age of eight and 10.
Mr Bonner said Hampson would have been aged between 34 and 37 at the time.
The Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts, Liverpool Crown Court. File picture. Photo by Ian Cooper
Child B also said he saw pornographic magazines and that Hampson performed sexual acts on him.
Mr Bonner said: “He didn’t tell anybody about what was happening to him at the time and didn’t know that he wasn’t the only one.”
When interviewed by police, Hampson accepted that he had pornographic magazines and videos, but said these were hidden away and he did not show them to the boys.
He claimed he had only shown them cartoons and children’s films on a TV with a video player in his bedroom and that they must have found the porn without his knowledge.
Hampson said both of the alleged victims must be lying – an assertion he repeated in court, when he insisted “nothing at all happened”.
Recorder Turner said the paedophile would be sentenced on February 12 and remanded him on bail.
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