Barry Cable is accused of historic sex crimes against a nine-year-old girl
Disgraced AFL legend Barry Cable has been charged with historic sexual offenses against a nine-year-old girl.
It comes almost a year after a judge ruled in a civil case that Cable was a pedophile.
WA Police revealed on Friday that Cable, 80, had been charged with offenses linked to a young girl, but according to The West Australian she is not one of five women who shared their experiences in the WA District Court.
Disgraced AFL legend Barry Cable has been charged with historic sexual offenses against a nine-year-old girl
It comes almost a year after a judge ruled in a civil case that Cable was a pedophile
Police will allege that 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 intercourse with a girl under 13 years of age and two counts of unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under 13 years of age.
Cable, from Shelley, will appear in the Perth Magistrates Court on May 30.
The one-time AFL Hall of Famer is said to have been 24 years old at the time of the alleged offences.
That was at the height of his football career, which saw him win WAFL premierships in both 1967 and 1968.
Cable (pictured with wife Helen) will appear in the Perth Magistrates Court on May 30.
After the civil trial, Judge Mark Herron ruled that he believed the allegations of the five women who testified.
He awarded the lead plaintiff damages of more than $800,000, but Cable declared bankruptcy just days before the trial began.
Following the verdict, Police Commissioner Col Blanch confirmed the case was being re-investigated.
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 the WA Football Commission Hall of Fame also dumped him.