AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Giselle Wakatama
A former Catholic school principal has been sentenced to 18 months’ jail for indecently assaulting a Hunter Valley school boy.
Peter Pemble, 67, sexually abused the boy at Maitland’s Marist Brothers’ High School in the early 1970s.
He went on to become principal at St Gregory’s college in Campbelltown in western Sydney.
Pemble’s victim told the court the abuse left his life in tatters, causing anxiety and fear.
Newcastle District Court Judge Peter Berman noted that he must impose a sentence in line with the time the offence was committed.
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