AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
Paedophile Francis William Cable: Victims speak out about horrific abuse at Marist Brothers schools
June 18, 2015
Paul Bibby
Court Reporter
From the top of the steps at Sydney’s Downing Centre court complex the past two-and-a-half years seemed “like an eternity” to Terry Kippen.
Moments before he had watched as Francis William Cable – one of the state’s worst Catholic school paedophiles – was slowly taken away by prison officers to serve a maximum 16-year prison term.
For decades Cable had quietly gone about his daily life as Mr Skippen and 18 other men struggled to cope with the consequences of the horrific abuse he had inflicted on them at Marist Brothers schools in Newcastle and Sydney between 1960 and 1974.
But at the beginning of 2013 Terry broke his silence and went to police.
“I had to do something,” Terry said after Cable, 83, was sentenced on Thursday.
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