AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A Marist Brother has been sentenced to at least eight years in prison for sexually assaulting 19 schoolboys in NSW over a 15-year period.
Francis William Cable, known as Brother Romuald, was found guilty over four counts of buggery and 21 counts of indecent assault at Catholic schools where he taught in the Hunter region and Sydney between 1960 and 1974.
Victims and their supporters cheered and clapped in a Sydney court as Justice Peter Whitford handed down the sentence on Thursday.
In sentencing Cable, Judge Whitford said the 83-year-old systematically abused his position of power as a teacher and schoolmaster to prey on the schoolboys.
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