'Clare' bragged about Johns romp: friend

AAP May 14, 2009, 10:11 pm

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A former work colleague of the woman at the centre of the Cronulla Sharks sex scandal involving Matthew Johns claims her co-worker bragged about the incident.

Tania Boyd has told the Nine Network that the woman in the ABC's Four Corners report, identified as "Clare", had boasted to her workmates about bedding several players and only contacted police five days after the alleged incident.

"She was absolutely excited about the fact. She was bragging about it to the staff and quite willing, openly saying how she had sex with several players," said Boyd.

"We were quite disgusted about it. There was no trauma whatsoever.

"I'm disgusted that a woman can all of a sudden change her story from having a great time to then turning it into a terrible crime.

"One minute she was absolutely bragging about it, she did not know names. These names only came to light to us in the last day.

"We all just thought it was hilarious until five days later the police came to work and were horrified she had now changed her story to say she was now a victim of crime.

"It was definitely consensual, absolutely.

"She is saying she is still traumatised etcetera, well she wasn't for five days, or four days at least, after that affair.

"I can't work out what's happened. Does it take five days for it to sink in?"

The woman told the ABC that the night in which she had group sex with several Cronulla players at a Christchurch hotel seven years ago left her with psychological damage and led her to abandoning her studies.

Psychiatrists reported that she was suicidal, had cut her wrists several times and bought a rope to hang herself.

She told the ABC she felt degraded and traumatised by the incident and despised the players involved.

Among the allegations aired on Monday, 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."

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Carmy 11:55pm Friday 22nd May 2009 EST Report Abuse
if she was that badly disturbed by the situation then she should have gone to the police asap ...she want's cash simple
Carmy 11:54pm Friday 22nd May 2009 EST Report Abuse
You know what robyn all i have seen is you on here being Mrs Mangles about the situation ...all i have to say is
publicopinions101 11:35am Monday 18th May 2009 EST Report Abuse
Has it occured to those referring to Clare as a ?#%! and wanting to know why we haven't seen her face, that it may be because Channel 2 (Four Corners) sought her out and she only agreed to go on the show if she retained anonymity!
publicopinions101 11:33am Monday 18th May 2009 EST Report Abuse
Matthew Johns & Co are disgusting individuals unable to respect women. I have to ask the ratio of ment to woman for this incident points very may to gay orientation for the men present.
Franny 10:59am Sunday 17th May 2009 EST Report Abuse
None of you people has any respect for women. No wonder some women have no self respect. Yes, the enormity and shame of the situation she put herself into probably took a while to sink in. Anyone who is honest will admit that yes, sometimes they went too far and did something stupid...these football ...
John 07:52am Sunday 17th May 2009 EST Report Abuse
Congratulations Tania Boyd for coming out and telling everyone what a liar and predator this Clare realy is. She is not traumatised, she had problems long before the footballers came along. She should be named and shamed properly on National TV.
zorb1963 01:10pm Saturday 16th May 2009 EST Report Abuse
why doesn't she have to be shown and shame like matty johns has I don't see ABC telling the whole story as it has been told. shame on ABC for only telling half the story.
Robyn 12:50pm Saturday 16th May 2009 EST Report Abuse
See Allan J. They just keep trotting out the same old blame.
anne 12:42pm Saturday 16th May 2009 EST Report Abuse
Why wait 7yrs is she short of money now !!!!!!
leeds3150 12:04pm Saturday 16th May 2009 EST Report Abuse
There is so much to say and so little room - it's happened and let the sleeping dog lie (in her own filth as far as I'm concerned). Get some counselling! Talk about a delayed reaction to something! Geez! I'd be more worried about her threat with saying if she had a gun and wh ...