Member of prominent AFL family charged with rape.
A member of a prominent AFL family has been charged with sexual offences.
The man was charged today by Victoria Police’s Sexual Offences Squad and faced Melbourne Magistrates’ Court this afternoon.
He is from a famous family with ties to an AFL club but cannot be named or identified in any way due to a suppression order granted by the magistrate.
The man has been charged with two counts of rape and three counts of common law assault.
It’s alleged the offences occurred over a two-week period in January in Melbourne’s east.
The court heard it was the man’s first time in custody.
