A Canberra man abused by notorious paedophile Ian Harold King has told the ACT Supreme Court the former elite junior cricket coach "stole" his soul.
Former Queensland cricketer Ian Harold King, 79, has already been convicted of offences against 10 other boys ranging in age from 12 to 18 years old.
He is currently serving a 22-year sentence, which is not due to end until 2030.
King has pleaded guilty to offences against the man who presented his victim impact statement in court today.
Court documents reveal the man was molested when he was about 13, after King had taken an interest in him, and given him one-on-one cricket training.
The boy had been impressed because he knew King was a renowned fast bowler and he was keen to learn from him.
But after a session of training, the pair returned to King's home when the abuse occurred.
The man described feeling frightened, humiliated and frozen.
He told the court he did not report the abuse until 2019.
'I hate you, you are a predator'
On Monday, he told of the deep emotional damage he had endured.
"This has made me hurt the people I love most in this world for 23 years," he said.
"The scars are so ingrained, so deep, that some will never fully heal and I will have to live with them for the rest of my life."
He addressed King, who appeared by video link from jail, directly.
"I hate you, you are a predator," he said.
But the man said by coming forward he had been able to shed some of the damage.
"I am no longer that innocent young boy whose soul you stole," he said.
The man also took aim at sporting authorities accusing them of doing nothing to stop what happened to him.
"Still to this very day, neither Cricket ACT or Cricket Australia show any form of compassion, empathy, compensation or public acknowledgement that they did nothing to prevent or stop this type of abuse from happening," he said
King's lawyers also asked the court to consider a psychological assessment included in the earlier cases, where it was stated that he did know right from wrong, but he had elements of arrested psychosexual development, egocentricity, schizoid and schizotypal social isolation patterns.
The court heard King had had a deprived childhood, marked by violence at home, and that he had also been sexually abused himself.
He will be formally sentenced later in the year.
