Disgraced AFL legend faces string of historical sex offence charges

A court has granted more time to consider charges laid against disgraced AFL legend Barry Cable over historical sexual abuse claims that occurred more than five decades ago. Cable has been charged with seven offences that allegedly involved a girl aged nine and 10 at the time of the alleged offending. Police charged Cable in May, and he pleaded not guilty to those offences in the Perth Magistrates Court days later. The charges were laid almost one year after a judge in a civil case ruled that Cable was a pedophile. His case was back in front of a Perth magistrate on Thursday, but he wasn’t required to appear and was instead represented by his lawyer. The prosecutor told the court that the file manager needed more time to consider the charges before Cable. Police will allege between 1967 and 1968, Cable sexually assaulted a girl who was between nine and 10 years old at the time. He has been charged with five counts of indecent dealing with a girl under 13 and two counts of unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under 13. The former AFL Hall of Famer would have been aged 24 at the time of the alleged offences. That was at the prime of his football career, winning WAFL premierships in both 1967 and 1968. Cable has been stripped of his AFL Legend and Hall of Fame status. North Melbourne also removed him from their Hall of Fame, as did the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. The WA Institute of Sport Hall of Champions and WA Football Commission Hall of Fame also dumped him.