WA police have charged disgraced AFL footballer Barry Cable with child sexual abuse after he allegedly assaulted a young girl in the 1960s.
Child Abuse Squad detectives say they charged the 80-year-old as a result of their investigation into historical child sexual abuse allegations.
It will be alleged during 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 indecently dealing with a girl under 13 and two counts of unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under 13 years.
The charges come less than a year after Cable was found to have abused a young girl in the 1960s during a civil matter.
A Perth judge ruled he had sexually abused the woman – now aged in her 60s – starting from when she was just 12 years old.
