You could change that to 33 years as far as I can see.
Depends on how you count Milne, I suppose. If not that, then the closest thing that I can think of was of the brother of an AFL player - and he got an outrageously low sentence.
Lovett and Daw were both at least taken as far as possible, and given that rape at trial is around a 50-50 prospect at best, an acquittal at trial is not that surprising.
Lovett was significantly affected by a bad Court of Appeal decision which was subsequently overturned by the High Court; the result could have been different if it had come a few years later.
Daw...well, something significant happened towards the end of that trial which may have affected the outcome; the media didn't pick up on it [though given the Herald Sun's coverage of Milne, which was either biased in his favour or just incompetent, I wouldn't trust their reports anyway], but some people involved certainly did. There's a story to come out of that, and I hope it does some day.
At least a few are actually making it to trial now, though. Goodness knows it's nothing new; I know a few people who used to be heavily involved in the VFA, and a few players were infamous when it came to their treatment of women.
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