Sigh
Like î said Vi
The AFL have a history of hush money to cover crimes .
the NRL deal with there's out in the open .
No police meddling or losing evidence
No compliant media .
No hush money to cover up crimes .
This is from the 4 corners report from years ago .
The link is dead but the transcript is still around .
I expect you will ignore it
Originally posted by campbell
Also it said with O'Laughlin that he was never interviewed. if they thought he had committed a crime he would have been interviewed.He wasn't, so he is in the clear.Thats a smear on his name.
MAN: You were absolutely positive it was Adam Heuskes, Peter Burgoyne and Michael O'Loughlin?
JANE: Yeah.
TICKY FULLERTON: Jane says she was raped by Adam Heuskes and Peter Burgoyne and that at one point, Heuskes and Michael O'Loughlin were masturbating close to her face.
TICKY FULLERTON: And what of the third player, Michael O'Loughlin? He was not charged. His club, the Sydney Swans, says that he was never interviewed by police. This fact has been used by O'Loughlin to support his claim of innocence. Adelaide police will not comment publicly on the case. It's understood there was an intention to interview Michael O'Loughlin. One reason this did not h
appen was that he was interstate. A year later Heuskes, Burguoyne and O'Loughlin paid a reported $200,000 to Jane in a settlement. No liability was admitted by the footballers. O'Loughlin said he paid secretly to protect the integrity of his family. Jane was also bound to secrecy through a confidentiality agreement.
VANESSA SWAN, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SERVICES AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE: What we hear of is payments being made with clauses in them to try and silence the victims, and certainly that's out-and-out cover-up. That is out-and-out sweeping under the carpet.
TICKY FULLERTON: The football clubs were closely involved in the negotiations. Port Adelaide attended meetings with Peter Burgoyne and his lawyer. The Sydney Swans have used the confidentiality agreement to imply that Jane cleared Michael O'Loughlin of any part in the alleged assault. Six weeks ago, the club put out a carefully crafted press release that read "In a signed statement, the woman concerned said: 'I want to make it absolutely clear I have no claim against Michael O'Loughlin.'"
But Jane's lawyer has advised Four Corners that there is no separate signed statement. It is, in fact, part of the confidentiality agreement referred to in the Swans' press release. Four Corners believes that the statement releases O'Loughlin from legal claims, but does not confirm he had no role in the alleged assault.
ANDREW DEMETRIOU, AFL CHIEF EXECUTIVE: The Sydney Swans Football Club acted absolutely appropriately in coming forward to assure everyone and protect Michael O'Loughlin as an individual by saying that he wasn't involved in an alleged sexual assault. I see no issue with that, and whether they've taken a line out of the confidentiality agreement to protect Michael O'Loughlin, I think the Sydney Swans have acted appropriately.
TICKY FULLERTON: But as you say, the message seems to be that he wasn't involved in the alleged assault at all, and that is not what the woman has alleged.
ANDREW DEMETRIOU: Well, again, um...that matter was investigated.
TICKY FULLERTON: Jane's cousins are outraged at this message that O'Loughlin was not involved in the alleged assault.
JANE'S COUSIN: You know, at the end of the day, we know what's true and right and I can categorically say that...that that's not correct and that, um, just because he wasn't interviewed by the police at the time was by the fact that he was in Sydney, not because he wasn't...associated with the...with the incident.
200k hush money buys a lot of silence .
Then there's this
https://www.smh.com.au/national/elliott ... -cwmc.html
Lol a club boss admitting he paid hush money .
Then the is gil saying it's ok .
Yes RL has many incidents .
But we don't cover up
We deal with them .
The AFL use every trick they can to cover up .
To protect the image .
So how would we know how many AFL incidents there are in the off season with the morally bankrupt AFL & friends to keep things quiet.