{"id":284359,"date":"2023-04-09T07:58:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T07:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=284359"},"modified":"2023-04-09T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T13:59:13","slug":"cats-taken-to-court-over-historical-sex-abuse-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=284359","title":{"rendered":"Cats taken to court over historical sex abuse claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T\ufeffhe <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/geelong-cats\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Geelong Cats\">Geelong Cats<\/a> have responded to allegations of historical sexual abuse concerning a a person who was involved with the club&#x27;s under 19s team in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Sunday evening, the club responded to the legal proceedings launched against them in the Supreme Court of Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Our first thought is with the individual, their family and the community and the club is taking this matter extremely seriously,&quot; it read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/golf\/us-masters-2023-jason-kokrak-fumes-over-sandy-lyle-farewell-putt-fans-miss-out\/c3ef0838-cae1-43b4-9152-459b06479b8d\" target=\"\" title=\"American grills Masters over &#x27;damn near unforgivable&#x27; call\ufeff\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>American grills Masters over &#x27;damn near unforgivable&#x27; call\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/news-2023-sydney-swans-paddy-mccartin-concussion-fears-john-longmire-urges-caution\/0ea8e5bb-0c0b-462b-9aa3-54f6e56072a1\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Coach&#x27;s plea after star&#x27;s &#x27;distressing&#x27; head knock\ufeff\"><strong>Coach&#x27;s plea after star&#x27;s &#x27;distressing&#x27; head knock\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;As legal proceedings have now commenced and with respect to all parties, the club is unable to make any further comment at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We acknowledge this communication may cause distress and we encourage people to seek appropriate support.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Crisis support is available from<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeline.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Lifeline<\/strong><\/em><\/a> <em><strong>on 13 11 14.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).Young people can contact Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/edm?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\"><em><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>T\ufeffhe Geelong Cats have responded to allegations of historical sexual abuse concerning a a person who was involved with the club&#x27;s under 19s team in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=284359\" title=\"Cats taken to court over historical sex abuse claim\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284361,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284359\/revisions\/284361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}