Second Victim Speaks out against Former Holy Spirit Teacher

By Shannon Tonkin
Illawarra Mercury
November 7, 2014

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A former teacher at Bellambi’s Holy Spirit College sacked after sexually abusing a student in the early 1990s has pleaded guilty to molestation charges involving another student years earlier.

Gregory Allan Cain’s seven-year employment at the school as a sports and physical education teacher was terminated in August 1992 after allegations emerged he had sexually and indecently assaulted a 15-year-old student a few months earlier.

Cain avoided jail at the time, instead being ordered to perform 500 hours of community service.

However, in Campbelltown District Court on Friday, Cain admitted that the student was not the first he had interfered with, confessing to having sexually abused a male student who slept over at his house on three occasions in the 1980s.

The court heard Cain invited the victim and a couple of his friends to a party at his house one evening where the boys, then aged 14 and 15, were fed alcohol.

The victim, who had consumed multiple glasses of bourbon and coke, fell asleep on the lounge, only to wake in the middle of the night to discover Cain had pulled down his jeans and underwear and was performing fellatio on him.

The teen later told police he was unsure of what to do and pretended to be asleep.

Cain eventually stopped the assault and patted the boy on the head before leaving the room.

On another occasion in the same year, the teen and his mates again stayed over at Cain’s house, and consumed alcohol before going to bed.

The boy again woke to Cain performing fellatio on him during the night, but pretended to be asleep as he had done previously.

The following year, after the victim had left school, he and two friends stayed at Cain’s house for a third time.

The victim had spoken to one of his mates about what Cain had done, and the two came up with a plan of what they would do if the incident happened again.

When the victim woke that night to Cain molesting him again, he grabbed his former teacher in a headlock before calling out to his friend, and the pair left in Cain’s vehicle.

They returned it later the same day, with Cain apologising to them for what he had done.

The victim told police he was troubled for years over Cain’s actions, but had not built up the courage to report the matter.

He eventually confided in his local priest last year, who reported it for him.

Cain was arrested last May after the victim gave a statement to police.

The 53-year-old, who now lives in St Clair in Sydney’s west, will be sentenced on December 19.