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Australian rugby league apologizes for sex scandal

CNN 05/13/2009 02:58
The Cronulla Sharks and the North Queensland Cowboys play on April 19 in Adelaide, Australia.

The Cronulla Sharks and the North Queensland Cowboys play on April 19 in Adelaide, Australia.


(CNN) -- Australia's National Rugby League apologized on Tuesday for the behavior of its players after ABC's "Four Corners" current-affairs program revealed allegations of group sex in 2002 between players and a New Zealand woman.



Two other women told the program they were sexually abused by NRL players.

(...) The allegations of group sex involved NRL personality Matthew Johns, who played for Cronulla at the time of the alleged incident in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Johns was suspended indefinitely by the Nine Network on Wednesday.

(...) In the ABC report, the then-19-year-old woman said she met Johns and his Cronulla teammate Brett Firman when she was working as a waitress. She said she went back to their hotel room, where she alleges six Cronulla players and staff had sex with her, while a half-dozen others watched.

"They were massive, like big rugby players. I felt that I just had no idea what to do. There was always hands on me," she said. "I thought I was worthless, and I thought I was nothing. I think I was in shock. I didn't scream. They used a lot of mental power over me and belittled me."


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