{"id":76626,"date":"2026-08-20T12:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/76626\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T12:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:33:19","slug":"woman-at-centre-of-sydney-swans-sexual-assault-allegations-breaks-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/76626\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman at centre of Sydney Swans sexual assault allegations breaks silence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted while performing for members of the Sydney Swans on Monday morning told the Herald Sun<\/a> on Thursday, “All I care about is justice.”<\/p>\n

“I don’t want money,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m going to stand up for what is right. And I\u2019m never going to let this happen to anyone else. Justice will be served.<\/p>\n

\u201cI care about women\u2019s rights and what\u2019s right, because this happens too often to women and they get away with it.”<\/p>\n

The woman’s statement to the Herald Sun also alleges there were more men in the room for the performance than the club had previously said.<\/p>\n

She said there were “nine men” in the room.<\/p>\n

The club has stood down five players for letting down club standards in the Pullman hotel on Monday: Isaac Heeney, Riley Bice, Nick Blakey, James Jordon and Chad Warner.<\/p>\n

The players had allegedly hired the woman<\/a> and another exotic dancer to perform lap dances.<\/p>\n

The woman has also claimed the men did not identify themselves as AFL players, leading her and another dancer to accept a lower fee for their services.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did the show for less money than normal because we thought they were carpenters,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey told us they were carpenters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Victoria Police has confirmed no one has been arrested or formally interviewed in relation to the alleged incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n

News24.com.au is not suggesting any wrongdoing by the players questioned or that they are under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted while performing for members of the Sydney Swans on Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64657,113668,77,113657,105423,113661,113666,113665,37623,36627,113673,5812,113608,10611,107252,7702,113669,107243,31512,113658,100500,113672,44921,2945,113656,113671,4838,28257,113660,12318,6523,3198,111341,113602,37532,37045,8937,113667,36526,105608,12327,113653,38649,6633,34917,38756,107247,113662,107583,113664,39193,36540,113663,247,5009,59515,113659,40466,104059,36649,39770,47672,5606,43345,51471,39779,107569,41762,39272,103713,37141,113670,7444,10535,1373,22441,12205,7211],"class_list":["post-76626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sydney","tag-s-rights","tag-a-lower-fee","tag-afl","tag-afl-club","tag-afl-players","tag-afl-swans","tag-another-dancer","tag-another-exotic-dancer","tag-any-wrongdoing","tag-anyone-else","tag-breaching-club-standards","tag-breaking","tag-carpenters","tag-centre","tag-chad-warner","tag-club-standards","tag-colgate","tag-darrian-traynor-getty-images","tag-drug-use","tag-exotic-dancer","tag-five-players","tag-five-swan-players","tag-her-silence","tag-herald-sun","tag-interview-plays-and-witnesses","tag-investigating-the-sexual-assault-allegations","tag-investigation","tag-isaac-heeney","tag-ivnestigation","tag-james-jordon","tag-jason-mccawley","tag-justice","tag-lap-dances","tag-less-money","tag-members","tag-monday","tag-money","tag-more-men","tag-morning","tag-news24-com-au","tag-nick-blakey","tag-nine-men","tag-no-one","tag-phil-hillyard","tag-picture","tag-relation","tag-riley-bice","tag-season-ending-bans","tag-sexual-assault-allegations","tag-sexual-crimes-squad","tag-silence","tag-statement","tag-swan-scandal","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-swans","tag-sydney-swans-players","tag-the-afl-world","tag-the-alleged-incident","tag-the-alleged-sexual-assault","tag-the-centre","tag-the-club","tag-the-first-time","tag-the-herald-sun","tag-the-men","tag-the-performance","tag-the-players","tag-the-pullman-hotel","tag-the-room","tag-the-show","tag-the-sydney-swans","tag-the-woman","tag-their-services","tag-thursday","tag-vic","tag-victoria-police","tag-wednesday","tag-woman","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}