Care worker found guilty of raping teenager and engaging in abusive behaviour

A care worker who looked after the elderly and people with dementia has been found guilty of raping a teenager.

Taylor Whyte, now 21, was 17 when he subjected the girl, then 19, to the attack.

The ordeal caused her to vomit.

In pre-recorded evidence, the victim, now 22, told the High Court in Stirling: “He’d play a game – how many times can I make [her] cry? That would be his form of entertainment for the night.”

She said he called her “PD rape victim” – she said the letters “PD” meant “borderline personality disorder”.

The incidents were said to have occurred between August 2021 and February 2022 at Whyte’s home in Perthshire.

Whyte, a care worker at the time who more recently worked as a mechanic, said in evidence that what was alleged either didn’t happen or the victim consented.

After a five day trial, a jury took more than four hours to find him guilty of rape. The verdict was by majority.

The jury also found him guilty, unanimously, of engaging in a course of abusive behaviour towards the victim.

He had denied the offences.

Judge Jane Farquharson revoked bail and deferred sentence for background reports until June 20 at the High Court in Livingston.