Get the latest BirminghamLive news direct to your inbox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nBritish Transport Police Detective Constable Karl Byrne said: \u201cGloster is a callous predator who deliberately targeted and exploited young boys for his own sexual gratification.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe two boys were so brave with their support to the investigation and I really hope that they, and their families, can take some reassurance knowing he\u2019ll be locked up for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n
Support for victims of sexual offences – where to get help<\/p>\n
The Survivors Trust<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Survivors Trust is the largest umbrella agency for specialist rape and sexual abuse services in the UK.<\/p>\n
Their services work with victims and survivors of all ages, all genders, of all forms of sexual violence, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation, including support for partners and family members.<\/p>\n
If you have been a victim of a sexual offence, you can call the free helpline on 08088 010 818.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cThere is zero-tolerance for sexual offences on the rail network and we will do everything in our power to bring offenders like Gloster to justice.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d encourage everyone to save 61016 in their phones and let us know if you ever witness or experience sexual offending.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will always act and we will always take you seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Damien Gloster sexually assaulted one teenage boy on a train on the Cross City line between Barnt Green…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,9563,10844,16,15,15266],"class_list":{"0":"post-84754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northfield","14":"tag-selly-oak","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-west-midlands-railway"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114472546752256060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Damien Gloster was found guilty by a jury of sexually abusing two boys in separate incidents on the Cross City line in Birmingham – one on a train and another who he lured to woodland<\/p>\n