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The growing number of extragalactic high-energy (HE, E > 100 MeV) andvery-high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray sources that do not belong to theblazar class suggests that VHE gamma-ray production may be a common property ofmost radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). In a previous paper, we haveinvestigated the signatures of Compton-supported pair cascades initiated by VHEgamma-ray absorption in monochromatic radiation fields, dominated by Ly-alphaline emission from the Broad Line Region. In this paper, we investigate theinteraction of nuclear VHE gamma-rays with the thermal infrared radiation fieldfrom a circumnuclear dust torus. Our code follows the spatial development ofthe cascade in full 3-dimensional geometry. We provide a model fit to thebroadband SED of the dust-rich, gamma-ray loud radio galaxy Cen A and show thattypical blazar-like jet parameters may be used to model the broadband SED, ifone allows for an additional cascade contribution to the Fermi gamma-rayemission.

VHE Gamma-Ray Induced Pair Cascades in the Radiation Fields of Dust Tori of AGN: Application to Cen A