A convicted paedophile has admitted to a further five offences against teenage boys. Ian Harold King, 70, is already serving a 19-year jail sentence after pleading guilty to 25charges relating to the sexual abuse of young boys in the 1980s and 1990s.
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King, who lost an eye in a jail bashing earlier this year, was due to go on trial over a further five offences when he pleaded guilty in the ACT Supreme Court to charges of sexual intercourse without consent and committing acts of indecency. The offences carry a maximum sentence of 12 and five years respectively.
Court documents show King met his victims through the Weston Creek cricket club between 1989 and 1998. The former fast bowler, who represented Queensland in 1969 and 1970, was one of the first indigenous Australians to play first-class cricket.
King held positions of club coach and third grade captain within the club and became involved in the training of juniors players.
But he used that position to abuse a number of boys.
King approached one of his victims with an offer of personal coaching and mentoring.
In the months that followed, King bought him a pair of cricket spikes, a full cricket kit, and took him to dinner or the movies.
All five victims kept the incidents secret until telling the police in 2008.
King appeared before the ACT Supreme Court briefly on Friday, where his lawyer told Justice Richard Refshauge the defence was still waiting on a medical report.
The matter was adjourned for sentence hearing next month.
