AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
The frail monster with a walking stick: Victims cheer as Catholic teacher is jailed for at least eight years for horrific abuse during 15-year reign of terror
By Belinda Grant Geary For Daily Mail Australia and AAP
A former Marist Brother has been sentenced to at least eight years in prison for sexually abusing 19 schoolboys in Catholic schools across New South Wales.
Francis William Cable, also known as Brother Romuald, was found guilty on four counts of buggery and 21 counts of indecent assault.
The 83-year-old preyed on school boys he taught at Marist colleges at Maitland, located in the Lower Hunter Valley, and Pagewood, located in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, between 1960 and 1974.
Victims cheered as Judge Peter Whitford handed down the sentence in Sydney’s District Court on Thursday.
According to the ABC, Judge Whitford said Cable’s ‘abhorrent’ behaviour was fuelled by a need for sexual gratification and that his ‘predatory conduct’ persisted because he failed to understand the impact his ‘cruel’ actions had on his young victims.
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