{"id":397985,"date":"2024-05-28T21:38:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T21:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=397985"},"modified":"2024-05-28T23:05:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T23:05:36","slug":"haas-opens-up-as-father-faces-potential-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=397985","title":{"rendered":"Haas opens up as father faces potential death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"

New South Wales<\/a> star Payne Haas<\/a> has opened up about his father's arrest in the Philippines on alleged drug offences<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Broncos prop spoke to media including The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> in Blues camp on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\ufeffBoth of Haas' parents are currently in prison.<\/p>\n

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His father Gregor faces the death penalty or life in jail \ufeffafter being arrested earlier this month for allegedly attempting to smuggle methamphetamine into Indonesia.<\/p>\n

His mother\ufeff Uiatu Taufua has been in custody since being charged with three counts of manslaughter over a car crash in December 2022. She was also charged with mid-range drink driving and evading police.<\/p>\n

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It leaves 24-year-old Haas caring for his younger brothers Hans and Geejay.<\/p>\n

"Everyone knows what's happened," Haas said.<\/p>\n

"I'm just trying to look after my siblings and try and look after my family that I've got in Australia and try to make sure they're all right.<\/p>\n

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"I know there's lots of people who have got things worse, and I've been through worse things in my life. Obviously when I come and play footy, I enjoy it, it's my little escape from reality.<\/p>\n

"You talk about it straight away and move on from it… I just make sure they're all right, going to school and being normal, doing what normal kids do. Our family hasn't had a good run lately.<\/p>\n

\"Walsh<\/p>\n

"As long as I'm being a good role model for them, I know they'll be all right.<\/p>\n

"I grew up in not the best circumstances, but I always use sport, or anything [really], as a little escape from everything. I'm sort of used to it now and I just come into footy, and that's footy.<\/p>\n

"I don't try and bring my outside personal life into footy when I come to training with all the boys."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New South Wales star Payne Haas has opened up about his father's arrest in the Philippines on alleged drug offences. The Broncos prop spoke to […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":397987,"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\/397985"}],"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=397985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397990,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397985\/revisions\/397990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/397987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}