The worst of the allegations, aired in the Four Corners television programme on Monday night, came from a New Zealand woman who claimed that she was 19 when she was involved in group sex with six players from the Cronulla Sharks. Six men had sex with her in a Christchurch hotel seven years ago while another six looked on: "Every time I looked up, there would be more and more people in the room and there's lots of guys in the room watching, maybe two or three that were on the bed that were doing stuff to me." While she reported the incident to the police and there was an investigation, no charges were eventually laid on the Australian rugby players.
Psychiatrists reported that the woman, who was 19 years old at the time, had become suicidal. She had cut her wrists several times and bought a rope to hang herself. "If I had a gun I'd shoot them right now. I hate them, they're disgusting," she said.
Johns, now a television presenter, has admitted involvement but he and others allegedly involved said the sexual intercourse was consensual and no charges had been laid against them. Another woman claimed that a player raped her and that she saw phone footage of an incident involving seven players and a woman. Mr Gallop said the allegations were “distressing” and apologised on behalf of the sport. Experts said that group sex was used by rugby players as a means of team bonding, but that the sex was consensual, and usually one girl serviced not more than three players. Such group sex acts, degrading to women, exist in other sports like American football and in English soccer, where the practice is called roasting.
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