AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites

By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 12 June 2015)

On 12 June 2015, in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court, pre-sentence proceedings began for a Marist Brother, Francis William Cable (known as Brother “Romuald”), who has been found guilty of 13 serious child sex offences against two schoolboys after a jury trial. After the jury’s verdict, he entered guilty pleas to offences against another 17 schoolboys. The offences occurred in the 1960s and 1970s, when Brother “Romuald” Cable was aged in his thirties and forties. The offences include buggery, plus multiple counts of indecent assault. These 19 schoolboys are not necessarily Brother “Romuald” Cable’s only victims – these are merely those who have taken the opportunity to speak with police detectives. Too often, other similar victims remain silent.

Francis William Cable was born on 3 May 1932. He has been a Marist Brother since the 1950s….