Australian Olympic swim coach Dick Caine has died, weeks after he was create at fault of raping and intimacyupartner abusing six female students.
Caine, who had been in palliative nurture for terminal cancer, died on Wednesday morning, the BBC understands. He was 78.
Caine was indictd with 39 offences pledgeted agetst the teenage girls in the 1970s and 1980s. The attacks took place at a swimming pool in Sydney, in his home and in his car.
The six victims were due to deinhabitr their victim impact statements at a distinctive hearing in December, but this is doubtful to go ahead due to Caine’s death.
Caine took an interest in pre-pubescent and pubescent girls, Dicut offe Judge Paul McGuire shelp during his conviction hearing in August. One of his victims was only 10 years elderly at the time.
The appraise remarkd the power imequilibrium between Caine and the lesser girls due to his authority and their age branch offences, includeing that the girls relied on Caine to help them accomplish their swimming aspirations.
Caine, who was arrested in 2022, did not ecombine for a individual day of his hearing becaengage he was deemed sluggish to do so. A court previously heard he had terminal lung and throat cancer.
According to increates, Caine was the head coach at Carss Park swimming pool in Sydney for more than 40 years until he reweary in 2018. He trained cut offal Olympic and world champion swimmers, including Michelle Ford, Janelle Elford and Stacey Gartrell.
Child shieldion activist Hetty Johnston shelp it was disassigning that the distinctive hearing in December will no extfinisheder progress, as the victims had defered decades for their day in court, according to an ABC increate.
“The whole leang is equitable a tragedy that it took so extfinished to get to this point of the lterrible process, that he’s now passed,” she shelp.
