Paedophile schoolteacher David Harkess is the third sex offender to be identified in an ABC Sport investigation of WACA elite junior cricket squads of the 1970s and 1980s.
, whose abuse of boys he had coaxed into "drinks boy" duties at the WACA was revealed by ABC Sport last month.
King is currently serving a 16-year jail sentence for his sexual abuse of boys in elite junior cricket squads administered by Cricket ACT. In 2006, a former Cricket ACT coaching colleague of King's told police that he and another coach had been warned by Western Australian counterparts upon King's arrival in Canberra that King had offended against boys in Western Australia.
"It's very, very sad and disappointing to hear that there may be further victims of sexual abuse out there. It's something we have to look into more deeply and get to the bottom of it.
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