AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
June 18, 2015
Paul Bibby
Court Reporter
One of the state’s worst Catholic school paedophiles, who brutally raped and assaulted at least 17 vulnerable boys over the course of 15 years, is set to die in jail after being sentenced to a maximum of 16 years’ jail.
The victims of Francis William Cable and their relatives let out a cheer of vindication as the 83-year-old was sentenced in the Downing Centre District Court on Thursday.
Cable used his position as a technical drawing teacher and class master at the Marist Brothers Catholic school in Maitland and its sister school in the Sydney suburb of Pagewood to repeatedly abuse vulnerable students under his authority between 1960 and 1974.
The boys were repeatedly fondled, anally raped and forced to give the teacher oral sex.
Cable, known at the schools by his religious name, Brother Romuald, would threaten the students with physical violence, expulsion and social isolation if they reported his crimes, which he frequently justified by reference to quasi religious doctrine.
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