Today's "article" says we are the NRL club with the longest history against woman.
I did a very simple google check, actual "research", and found the following. There probably is more, but this is what I found. Journalist's really need to put their agenda down and report with "some" objectivity.
Roosters.
2012 – Leilua arrested and charged with Sydney Roosters centre Leilua was arrested and charged with assault, breaching an AVO and distributing photos of the woman via his mobile phone
2011 - Anthony Watts has been arrested and charged by police over an alleged domestic assault
Sharks
2009 - Group sex scandal in 2002. No charges laid at time. Woman says that players thought it was funny and leaves her traumatised.
2009 - Female Employee alledges that Sharks players given sex toys at training and strippers in dressing room after matches. Also, after giving her a black eye, she alledges that Zappia had offered to let her spank him as punishment for the black eye and had opened pornographic material on his computer while she was in the room with him.
2009 – Greg Bird Charged with 5 offences after alleged victim, 21-year-old Victoria Shannon, says the former Cronulla Sharks player punched her in the chest three times, poured vodka on her and threw a glass bottle at her at Fusion nightclub in Cronulla.
2008 – Greg Bird arrested and charged over incident in which a woman was allegedly hit in the face with a glass, suffering a fractured eye socket and severe lascerations.
2002 - February 2002 Players from NRL club Cronulla Sharks were investigated after a New Zealand hotel worker complained of being sexually abused. No charges.
Manly
2009 – Preseason function, Man allegedly assaulted by Watmough says that Watmough was harassing his 21 year old daughter. No charges laid.
2009 – Stewart arrested and charged over alleged sexual assault of 17 year old
2011 – Peter Peters stood down over sexist remark to reporter. As Sky News sports reporter Megan Barnard asked Glenn Stewart whether he was happy to have been given an adjournment (@ judiciary), the only response came from Peters "You're a good sort".
Tigers
2009 – Daine Laurie charged with assaulting his partner
2011 – Robert Leui arrested and charged with assaulting his partner.
Broncos
2008 - 3 players were being questioned over the alleged sexual assault of a woman in the toilets of the popular nightclub. No charges laid.
Souths
2013 - Ben Te'o under investigation for alleged assault of a woman. Investigation continuing after woman lodged formal complaint.
Storm
2009 - Inglis Charged with assaulting his girlfriend
2004 - 2 players under investigation for rape allegations. No charges laid.
NSW/ST George
2004 - Gasnier sacked for sending leaving lwed messages on a girls phone.
Warriors
2011 - Kevin Locke investigated over sexual assault claim. No charges laid.
However, journalists seem to remind us over and over about 2004 incident where NO arrest, and NO charge was EVER put to ANY player. Talk about agenda-pushing. In fact, I posted earlier, this is a DIRECT quote from a leading detective in the case
"Within the first forty-eight hours, approximately forty-eight hours, the .. we had twelve, twenty statements, for example of people that were in the area at the time. It just wasn't matching up. We still had to go through all the process of interviewing players and taking DNA, that was always going to happen. But within that short time that I just mentioned, it was becoming obvious to us as investigators that it was highly unlikely that anyone was going to be charged with the allegations"
"The evidence just wasn't there, it didn't support the rape allegations and as investigators we had very serious concerns; yet despite that, the aggressive police strategy continued week after week," he said. "There were warning bells that we would look silly. Everyone in the investigation saw the signs but the people above us were not listening - or if they were, they were ignoring them."
I did a very simple google check, actual "research", and found the following. There probably is more, but this is what I found. Journalist's really need to put their agenda down and report with "some" objectivity.
Roosters.
2012 – Leilua arrested and charged with Sydney Roosters centre Leilua was arrested and charged with assault, breaching an AVO and distributing photos of the woman via his mobile phone
2011 - Anthony Watts has been arrested and charged by police over an alleged domestic assault
Sharks
2009 - Group sex scandal in 2002. No charges laid at time. Woman says that players thought it was funny and leaves her traumatised.
2009 - Female Employee alledges that Sharks players given sex toys at training and strippers in dressing room after matches. Also, after giving her a black eye, she alledges that Zappia had offered to let her spank him as punishment for the black eye and had opened pornographic material on his computer while she was in the room with him.
2009 – Greg Bird Charged with 5 offences after alleged victim, 21-year-old Victoria Shannon, says the former Cronulla Sharks player punched her in the chest three times, poured vodka on her and threw a glass bottle at her at Fusion nightclub in Cronulla.
2008 – Greg Bird arrested and charged over incident in which a woman was allegedly hit in the face with a glass, suffering a fractured eye socket and severe lascerations.
2002 - February 2002 Players from NRL club Cronulla Sharks were investigated after a New Zealand hotel worker complained of being sexually abused. No charges.
Manly
2009 – Preseason function, Man allegedly assaulted by Watmough says that Watmough was harassing his 21 year old daughter. No charges laid.
2009 – Stewart arrested and charged over alleged sexual assault of 17 year old
2011 – Peter Peters stood down over sexist remark to reporter. As Sky News sports reporter Megan Barnard asked Glenn Stewart whether he was happy to have been given an adjournment (@ judiciary), the only response came from Peters "You're a good sort".
Tigers
2009 – Daine Laurie charged with assaulting his partner
2011 – Robert Leui arrested and charged with assaulting his partner.
Broncos
2008 - 3 players were being questioned over the alleged sexual assault of a woman in the toilets of the popular nightclub. No charges laid.
Souths
2013 - Ben Te'o under investigation for alleged assault of a woman. Investigation continuing after woman lodged formal complaint.
Storm
2009 - Inglis Charged with assaulting his girlfriend
2004 - 2 players under investigation for rape allegations. No charges laid.
NSW/ST George
2004 - Gasnier sacked for sending leaving lwed messages on a girls phone.
Warriors
2011 - Kevin Locke investigated over sexual assault claim. No charges laid.
However, journalists seem to remind us over and over about 2004 incident where NO arrest, and NO charge was EVER put to ANY player. Talk about agenda-pushing. In fact, I posted earlier, this is a DIRECT quote from a leading detective in the case
"Within the first forty-eight hours, approximately forty-eight hours, the .. we had twelve, twenty statements, for example of people that were in the area at the time. It just wasn't matching up. We still had to go through all the process of interviewing players and taking DNA, that was always going to happen. But within that short time that I just mentioned, it was becoming obvious to us as investigators that it was highly unlikely that anyone was going to be charged with the allegations"
"The evidence just wasn't there, it didn't support the rape allegations and as investigators we had very serious concerns; yet despite that, the aggressive police strategy continued week after week," he said. "There were warning bells that we would look silly. Everyone in the investigation saw the signs but the people above us were not listening - or if they were, they were ignoring them."
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