Fidge later came across the victim again and lured her outside and away from the other guests, with Smith joining.<\/p>\n
Neither man used a condom as they abused her.<\/p>\n
Fidge was later heard boasting to other guests after the assault, with Judge Mullaly describing the comments as “degrading”.<\/p>\n
The court heard that after the girl had gone inside, Smith messaged her on Snapchat, requesting she come outside again, where he abused her a second time.<\/p>\n
Both men lied to police upon their arrest, but later admitted their crimes.<\/p>\n
Forensic samples taken during a medical examination matched their DNA.<\/p>\n
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Judge Gerard Mullaly told the County Court one of the men made degrading comments while boasting about the assault. (ABC News: Jonathon Kendall)<\/p>\n
Judge Mullaly sentenced Fidge to four years and nine months in prison, with a non-parole period of three years.<\/p>\n
Smith was handed a total effective sentence of five years and 11 months and will not be eligible for parole for three years and 10 months.<\/p>\n
Judge Mullaly said the offending had “an element of an abhorrent male bravado” and graded their moral culpability as high.<\/p>\n
He said their crimes had “considerable and enduring adverse impacts on the victim and her family”.<\/p>\n
But he also took into account that they would experience relative isolation in prison, given neither man had a connection to Victoria.<\/p>\n
He also took into account their guilty pleas and their remorse.<\/p>\n
Victim suffers nightmares, feels dirty and insecure<\/p>\n
In a statement to the court, Judge Mullaly said the victim wrote that she felt dirty, insecure, ashamed and embarrassed and that she had engaged in self-harm after the incident.<\/p>\n
“I continuously blame myself for what happened and nothing seems to get better,” she said.<\/p>\n
She wrote that she had experienced nightmares and that many things now triggered her, including males around their age and the smell of alcohol.<\/p>\n
Her father’s statement to the court was also recounted by the judge.<\/p>\n
“When I picked my daughter up that morning, she was in a catatonic state,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It was incredibly confronting.”<\/p>\n
He said that since that day, he had seen her in that state “many times”.<\/p>\n
“I spend much of my time riddled with guilt for failing to keep my daughter safe.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two country footballers have been jailed for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl at a party, with a judge…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":666690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[281939,4740,281,281936,8516,281937,50,281938,10410],"class_list":{"0":"post-666689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aussie-rules","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-court","11":"tag-footballers","12":"tag-geelong","13":"tag-jaiden-fidge","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-riley-smith","16":"tag-sexual-abuse"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116255584944906580","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}