John's sex girl 'felt suicidal'
A WOMAN at the centre of sex allegations against Cronulla players says her life has been destroyed by the incident and she's wanted to kill some of the players.
NRL chief executive David Gallop says "there is a massive question mark'' over Matthew Johns's future in rugby league after explosive details emerged of a group sex encounter from seven years ago.
Johns was named and shamed in a Four Corners documentary that aired on national television on Monday night, detailing a sexual encounter with a young woman in Christchurch in 2002 that involved several Cronulla players.
Gallop says Johns's future must be questioned given he holds several high profile positions within the game including commentary for Channel 9 and as an assistant coach or advisor to some NRL clubs.
"He has got a massive question mark over his future,'' Mr Gallop said today.
"I'm aware that he will be talking to his employer in the next short period.
"I cannot say any more than he has a massive question mark over his position in rugby league.''
Johns's manager John Fordham expressed surprise that Gallop had weighed in on his client's career.
"I don't deal with David Gallop in relation to Matthew Johns' contractual arrangements at Channel 9," Fordham said.
"David Gallop has no direct involvement in any way, shape or form with Matthew Johns' arrangements with Channel 9 or indeed with any other entity.
"I am therefore deeply surprised that he would want to involve himself in an employment issue in which he has no involvement."
Mr Gallop offered an apology to the young woman involved in the Sharks scandal seven years ago and said there are counselling options available to her through the NRL.
"We would like to help her, we have counselling services available. We have used those counselling services with women in the past,'' he said.
Mr Gallop said everyone involved in rugby league must accept the need to change attitudes towards women or "get out of the game."
"I again offer my apologies on behalf of the game for the pain those women experienced,'' Mr Gallop said.
"Violence against women is abhorrent and sexual assault and the degradation of women is just that.
"So much of what we saw last night was fundamentally indefensible."
Mr Gallop went on to lay down an ultimatum.
"If anyone in the game today is ignoring the importance of that message, then frankly they will need to find another career," Gallop said.
'I'd shoot them'
Last night a woman at the centre of sex allegations against Cronulla players told Four Corners her life has been destroyed by the incident and she's wanted to kill some of the players.
The woman, who does not wish to be identified, says a night in which she had group sex with several Cronulla players at a Christchurch hotel seven years ago has left her with psychological damage and led her to abandoning her studies.
The New Zealand Accident and Compensation Commission has found she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, has funded treatment for her and given her a weekly payment, the ABC has reported.
Psychiatrists reported that she was suicidal, had cut her wrists several times and bought a rope to hang herself.
She said she felt degraded and traumatised by the incident and despised the players involved.
Ex-Cronulla player Matthew Johns has admitted involvement in the incident but says it was consensual.
Among new allegations aired yesterday, 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.''
The woman said Matthew Johns came up to her after the incident and apologised for others coming into the room.
The program said the New Zealand case was just one of a number of incidents in which women had been similarly mistreated.
It said incidents of group sex historically had been perceived as "a tool'' to facilitate team bonding, and such degrading treatment of women persisted in some quarters of the sport.
NRL chief executive David Gallop says "there is a massive question mark'' over Matthew Johns's future in rugby league after explosive details emerged of a group sex encounter from seven years ago.
Johns was named and shamed in a Four Corners documentary that aired on national television on Monday night, detailing a sexual encounter with a young woman in Christchurch in 2002 that involved several Cronulla players.
Gallop says Johns's future must be questioned given he holds several high profile positions within the game including commentary for Channel 9 and as an assistant coach or advisor to some NRL clubs.
"He has got a massive question mark over his future,'' Mr Gallop said today.
"I'm aware that he will be talking to his employer in the next short period.
"I cannot say any more than he has a massive question mark over his position in rugby league.''
Johns's manager John Fordham expressed surprise that Gallop had weighed in on his client's career.
"I don't deal with David Gallop in relation to Matthew Johns' contractual arrangements at Channel 9," Fordham said.
"David Gallop has no direct involvement in any way, shape or form with Matthew Johns' arrangements with Channel 9 or indeed with any other entity.
"I am therefore deeply surprised that he would want to involve himself in an employment issue in which he has no involvement."
Mr Gallop offered an apology to the young woman involved in the Sharks scandal seven years ago and said there are counselling options available to her through the NRL.
"We would like to help her, we have counselling services available. We have used those counselling services with women in the past,'' he said.
Mr Gallop said everyone involved in rugby league must accept the need to change attitudes towards women or "get out of the game."
"I again offer my apologies on behalf of the game for the pain those women experienced,'' Mr Gallop said.
"Violence against women is abhorrent and sexual assault and the degradation of women is just that.
"So much of what we saw last night was fundamentally indefensible."
Mr Gallop went on to lay down an ultimatum.
"If anyone in the game today is ignoring the importance of that message, then frankly they will need to find another career," Gallop said.
'I'd shoot them'
Last night a woman at the centre of sex allegations against Cronulla players told Four Corners her life has been destroyed by the incident and she's wanted to kill some of the players.
The woman, who does not wish to be identified, says a night in which she had group sex with several Cronulla players at a Christchurch hotel seven years ago has left her with psychological damage and led her to abandoning her studies.
The New Zealand Accident and Compensation Commission has found she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, has funded treatment for her and given her a weekly payment, the ABC has reported.
Psychiatrists reported that she was suicidal, had cut her wrists several times and bought a rope to hang herself.
She said she felt degraded and traumatised by the incident and despised the players involved.
Ex-Cronulla player Matthew Johns has admitted involvement in the incident but says it was consensual.
Among new allegations aired yesterday, 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.''
The woman said Matthew Johns came up to her after the incident and apologised for others coming into the room.
The program said the New Zealand case was just one of a number of incidents in which women had been similarly mistreated.
It said incidents of group sex historically had been perceived as "a tool'' to facilitate team bonding, and such degrading treatment of women persisted in some quarters of the sport.
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