Aspiring AFL players accused of sexual assault
Two aspiring Australian Rules footballers were among a group who allegedly sexually assaulted another man with a glass bottle and posted video of the incident online.
A Brisbane magistrate refused to allow the young teammates to have contact with each other on Friday despite one's lawyer arguing the incident was a "youthful prank".
Footballer's sexual assault with beer bottle
The Brisbane Magistrates Court heard the 19-year-old victim was allegedly assaulted with a glass bottle while passed out and only found out about the attack after the video was posted online.
The incident allegedly occurred after the victim passed out unconscious from drinking at an Australia Day party in Brisbane’s north this year.
The victim and the four men have known each other since they were students attending the same Brisbane private school.
Police will allege one of the four men, a 19-year-old Brisbane university student, posted the video of the rape on Facebook two days after the incident and then again six weeks later.
Police will also allege they have captured screen shots of three of the four men commenting and joking about the incident on Facebook.
Police will also allege the victim only became aware he was sexually assaulted after the university student sent him links to the videos on Facebook.
The student has been charged with one count of rape and two counts of distributing prohibited recordings and one count of distributing observations or recordings in breach of privacy.
The student has also been charged with a third count of distributing a prohibited recording over a separate incident in which he allegedly secretly took footage of him having sex with a teenage girl at Schoolies and posted it on Facebook.
Police allege the man posted the video shortly after the incident with the girl in December 2013 and then again this year.
The teenager, now 19, told police the man had contacted her to tell her he had posted pictures of their sexual encounter on Facebook.
Police will allege the footage of their sexual encounter was taken without the teenager’s knowledge or consent.