WA Police have charged former North Melbourne AFL player Barry Cable with alleged historic sexual abuse of a young girl.
The 80-year-old is accused of assaulting a girl aged between 9 and 10 years old at a time when he was playing football in the WAFL.
“It will be alleged; between 1967 and 1968 the man sexually assaulted a girl who was between 9 and 10 years old at the time,” WA Police has said.
Cable 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 years.
He is due to appear in the Perth Magistrates Court on Thursday.
