Status in Question Sexual offenders attending AFL events

[Rusty Cohle]

Any updates on Collingwood training today?

I am hearing that Mr A took a leaf out of Rolf Harris's latest book

Unlike that school Collingwood turned a blind eye

pantskyle please confirm

 

[Hoffy95]

pantskyle (sorry Rusty mate just checking that the tag worked as I wasn't sure)

 

[pantskyle]

I am hearing that Mr A took a leaf out of Rolf Harris's latest book

Unlike that school Collingwood turned a blind eye

pantskyle please confirm

pantskyle (sorry Rusty mate just checking that the tag worked as I wasn't sure)

Can confirm that azza and mummza were openly talking with schoolgirls.

 

[Hoffy95]

HUGE IF TRUE.

Sounds like an enabling scenario from said Mother. Can you confirm?

 

[pantskyle]

HUGE IF TRUE.

Sounds like an enabling scenario from said Mother. Can you confirm?

Reckon apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

 

[Hoffy95]

Wow had no idea Mum had priors. Shocked.

 

[Rusty Cohle]

HUGE IF TRUE.

Sounds like an enabling scenario from said Mother. Can you confirm?

Collingwood enabling too by allowing this to happen

#piegate

 

[Rusty Cohle]

 

[peternorth]

Still attends collingwood training.....enjoys the company of AFLW players there

 

[Kappa]

What the hell is this thread, a convicted paedophile is hanging out with children at Collingwood training ?

 

[Over The Post]

You sound surprised?

Have a look at twitter @mraaronmeadows

Pics with Collingwood players on April 24

 

[Kappa]

You sound surprised?

Have a look at twitter @mraaronmeadows

Pics with Collingwood players on April 24

And what crimes was he found guilty of?

 

[Over The Post]

https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/vic/VSCA/2017/290.html

 

[Dan]

The Jet

 

[Rusty Cohle]

Shameless and remorseless

 

[sobrave]

This flog doesn't seem to find anything wrong with trying to chat up a 12 year old

 

[Dan]

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader...s/news-story/996f836f9101544839a0734ec0078dd6

How?

 

[peternorth]

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader...s/news-story/996f836f9101544839a0734ec0078dd6

How?

what does it say

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader...s/news-story/996f836f9101544839a0734ec0078dd6

How?

Friends in high places obvs.

Ridiculous

 

[Over The Post]

*ing paywall. Cliffs?

 

[damochandler]

How * does both happen. Especially the upping one. Does anyone at head office have a grip on reality?

 

[Dan]

A repeat sex offender can resume umpiring junior footy matches after “a very senior person in the AFL” gave him a glowing reference.
But the public is not allowed to know who the offender is because of a gag order protecting his identity for the rest of his life — to save him from “embarrassment”.

The name of the AFL figure has also been kept secret by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.

An AFL spokesman said it would not comment last night.

VCAT documents reveal the 57-year-old pervert — referred to as MFK — has a long history of offending, including sexual penetration of a minor, stalking and masturbating in public.

But the tribunal agreed he could have a working with children permit on the basis he did not “pose an unjustifiable risk to the safety of children”.

In his judgment this week, VCAT deputy president Ian Proctor said: “A very senior person in the AFL gave a reference for MFK.

“He appeared at VCAT in 2013 to give evidence on MFK’s behalf, fully understanding MFK’s history.

“By way of reference and through his oral evidence before me in this proceeding, this referee strongly supported MFK being given an assessment notice.”

Testifying before VCAT, the AFL figure said he had known the man for 20 years.

“He regards MFK as a stalwart in the sport. He said that if there was concern about MFK’s conduct over the years in that context, he would know about it,” Mr Proctor said.

“He described MFK as amazingly honest and open about his past difficulties.”

The Herald Sun cannot name the umpire because of a VCAT suppression order.

The order was granted, in part, because releasing his identity would cause “undue distress or embarrassment to the applicant as the proceeding relates to sexual conduct”.

In a separate, unsuccessful appeal in 2013, the AFL figure was the only witness called by the man.

He described him as a “caring, down-to-earth, easygoing and well-liked person in his local community, with a wide social network”.

In 1984, the man was convicted of sexual penetration of a female under the age of 16.

He said he had been in a relationship with the 15-year-old girl but believed she was older.

An active junior and senior football umpire and “mentor” to young players, he was refused a working with children permit in 2009 when the AFL introduced a crackdown, but he successfully appealed that decision to VCAT.

The man lost the permit after being convicted of exposing himself to a woman while he sat in his car in 2010.

He asked her if she wanted a lift then followed her in his car, later offering her $20 in exchange for sex.

He was charged and sentenced to a 24-month community corrections order and placed on the sex offenders register.

He was also charged with wilful and obscene exposure in public in 2013, with police alleging he was masturbating in a public park after a female witness reported him.

The man claimed he had been urinating.

The case was dismissed by a magistrate.

In his unsuccessful 2013 appeal for a permit, VCAT ruled he posed a “more general risk of uncontrolled, inappropriate and harmful behaviour”.

But Mr Proctor granted the application this time because he found “no likelihood of future threat to a child by him”.

“I am satisfied the reasonable person would allow his or her child to have unsupervised direct contact with (the man) while he was engaged in any type of child-related work,” he said.

“He repeatedly emphasised that he was not a paedophile and that he therefore did not pose a risk to children.

“Public interest is not in my view served by saying once a person has taken a wrong turn, that person can never be redeemed.”

Mr Proctor said the protection of children from sexual and physical harm was the paramount consideration in his decision.

 

[Over The Post]

Thanks Dan.

VAFA introduced compulsory WWC checks for umpires (even though the lowest comp was U18) in response to Sig Sokolowski's conviction in 2008. I believe VCAT overturned his ban as he kept umpiring (maybe it was until his appeal was heard?) and it was very weird walking out on the oval with him knowing that my daughter was the same age as the ones he'd been feeling up. Something must have happened that he didn't let the VAFAUA know about, because he got done again for umpiring an unders match in 2012.

There is absolutely no point in the whole WWC farce as most offenders never get convicted and those who do can appeal and VCAT rolls over for them - as we see above.

Hopefully the sleaze will be named and shamed in due course.

 

[Dan]

Thanks Dan.

VAFA introduced compulsory WWC checks for umpires (even though the lowest comp was U18) in response to Sig Sokolowski's conviction in 2008. I believe VCAT overturned his ban as he kept umpiring (maybe it was until his appeal was heard?) and it was very weird walking out on the oval with him knowing that my daughter was the same age as the ones he'd been feeling up. Something must have happened that he didn't let the VAFAUA know about, because he got done again for umpiring an unders match in 2012.

There is absolutely no point in the whole WWC farce as most offenders never get convicted and those who do can appeal and VCAT rolls over for them - as we see above.

Hopefully the sleaze will be named and shamed in due course.

Shoulda briefcased him.

 

[Over The Post]

It was an interesting situation - you want to refuse to umpire with him, but if you did your finals ranking would be completely ****ed and the entire year wasted. What do you do?