‘Clare’ bragged about Johns romp: friend
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A former work colleague of the woman at the centre of the Cronulla Sharks sex scandal involving Matthew Johns claims her co-worker bragged about the incident.
Tania Boyd has told the Nine Network that the woman in the ABC’s Four Corners report, identified as “Clare”, had boasted to her workmates about bedding several players and only contacted police five days after the alleged incident.
“She was absolutely excited about the fact. She was bragging about it to the staff and quite willing, openly saying how she had sex with several players,” said Boyd.
“We were quite disgusted about it. There was no trauma whatsoever.
“I’m disgusted that a woman can all of a sudden change her story from having a great time to then turning it into a terrible crime.
“One minute she was absolutely bragging about it, she did not know names. These names only came to light to us in the last day.
“We all just thought it was hilarious until five days later the police came to work and were horrified she had now changed her story to say she was now a victim of crime.
“It was definitely consensual, absolutely.
“She is saying she is still traumatised etcetera, well she wasn’t for five days, or four days at least, after that affair.
“I can’t work out what’s happened. Does it take five days for it to sink in?”
The woman told the ABC that the night in which she had group sex with several Cronulla players at a Christchurch hotel seven years ago left her with psychological damage and led her to abandoning her studies.
Psychiatrists reported that she was suicidal, had cut her wrists several times and bought a rope to hang herself.
She told the ABC she felt degraded and traumatised by the incident and despised the players involved.
Among the allegations aired on Monday, the woman said two men rubbed their penises in her face while other men stood watching and masturbating.
Six men had sex with her while another six looked on. There was always someone touching her, she said.
“For years and years afterwards I was drinking a lot, crying a lot and losing a lot of friends and doing quite destructive things to myself and other people,” she told the program.
“At the end of it, I wasn’t so much drinking heaps and heaps, I was more scared to go out of the house.”
She said the destructive period lasted about four or five years and she was now speaking out to let the wives and girlfriends of those involved know what they had done.
“I was so angry and I wanted their lives destroyed like mine was,” she said.
“If I had a gun I’d shoot them right now.
“I hate them. They disgust me. For all that they did, I hate them so much.”
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May 15th 2009 @ 5:24pm
Pippinu said | May 15th 2009 @ 5:24pm | Report comment
Chop and Choppy – are you one and the same person?
The Four Corners program covered this issue from a number of different angles, and I think it would be very hard to question the integrity of that program (a large section of the program was dedicated to the progress clubs have made, to coaches explaining why it can be difficult for young male sporting celebraties to behave quasi-normally in ordinary society, and we even got to take a close up look at the archetypal temptress – a bit too close for my liking – but that was a pretty decent spread of views).
It exposed a real issue – one further magnified by some of the comments I’m reading on the Roar – but as many have said, the fact that it’s out there is a good thing.
It’s probably not a bad lesson for young men to learn that you don’t stick your dick in a girl’s mouth, unless she really wants you to, and you certainly don’t do it if she is being pinned down by a couple of big, burly blokes.
May 15th 2009 @ 6:20pm
John Ryan said | May 15th 2009 @ 6:20pm | Report comment
We had and still have a website in Perth AFAIK, called lovers and lobbers(sorry it is now members only)but a couple of blokes roam Perths nightclubs armed with a phone camera and maybe a normal digital,now the first pics they had up showed a couple who maybe should have know better doing a well known sexual act under a piano in a club in quasi full view,the also had other interesting pics of various people doped out of there heads among others.
And some well meaning people tell me that group sex is confined to footballers of the Rugby League type,trust me its not, I have seen a lot of interesting thing in my life done by so called normal people,that’s why I say that most of this is rank hypocrisy on behalf of 4 Corners the press TV,has anyone asked if the lady was paid by 4 Corners,most of these shows pay something in spite of vigorous denials.
There well may be more to come but maybe it wont reflect very well on the programme and newspapers involved in the witchunt,I may be wrong so we shall see.
May 16th 2009 @ 3:29pm
Tifosi said | May 16th 2009 @ 3:29pm | Report comment
Another story about the girl
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/mp/5570830/nrl-sex-woman-players/
May 16th 2009 @ 8:51pm
John said | May 16th 2009 @ 8:51pm | Report comment
Of course, for many people the idea of being had by half the football team would be an ultimate sexual fantasy. I don’t think there is anything intrinsically degrading about group sex scenarios. There is a word for what this girl is experiencing, it is called regret. I’m sure we’ve all regretted having sex with at least someone. What you don’t get to do (when you are an adult) is turn around and blame the person you regret having sex with.
May 18th 2009 @ 8:44am
Pippinu said | May 18th 2009 @ 8:44am | Report comment
You’ll feel a bit more than just regret if a long conga line of big, ugly boofheads start pouring in through the bathroom window uninvited.
If 50 year old pot bellied club officials start participating too, one could start concluding that things have gone a bit beyond a girl wanting to give some pleasure to 3 or 4 boof heads keen on fulfilling their own homo-erotic fantasies.
How the Christchurch police concluded that all of the above occurred with full consent is way, way beyond me.
Let’s just hope it was plain ol’ incompetence and nothing more.