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AFL rising star ‘allegedly threatened and intimidated multiple women’ as AFL receives new claims and text messages revealed’: ‘Your time is coming’
The AFL has received detailed complaints from a number of women relating to the harassment and threatening and intimidating behavior of North Melbourne star Tarryn Thomas, according to the herald sun.
Thomas, 22, was charged with threatening to distribute an intimate image earlier this month, following a three-month police investigation involving another woman.
And now, it has been claimed that several women have come forward to the AFL to share further allegations, with the league providing at least one woman with a psychologist after she was hospitalized due to an incident last year.
The AFL has received multiple allegations regarding the behavior of Tarryn Thomas.
The young footballer has yet to face any disciplinary action from the league or his club for his alleged behaviour.
The AFL’s integrity unit heard allegations including:
- Telling a woman that you wanted to hit her, as well as insulting her like ‘shit’
- Throwing a lamp at a woman in a hotel room
- Sending threatening text messages, including ‘your time is coming’ while warning that she was ‘going to hit’ a woman’s friend
- A verbal and physical altercation at a nightclub in Prahran
In a flurry of text messages, Thomas allegedly tells a woman: “Are you kidding… keep talking shit… shit is coming soon… your turn is coming… shit *** is going down… I’m not a ***** to fuck me’.
Another woman reportedly told friends: “I’m too scared… I know he’s going to kill me.”
Another woman revealed how the soccer player sent other people intimate photos that he had taken of her.
The young gun from North Melbourne has been accused of threatening and intimidating behaviour.
Daily Mail Australia is not suggesting that the allegations are true, only that they have been made.
An AFL spokesman said on Tuesday: “Any allegation of threats of violence against women is unacceptable and is behavior the AFL takes very seriously. The AFL have worked with Victoria Police in regards to North Melbourne player Tarryn Thomas and after receiving new information from the Herald Sun, the AFL contacted people we know of directly.
‘The AFL has offered and will continue to provide welfare support to anyone who has made a complaint.
“The AFL has investigated all formal complaints where appropriate and where there have been allegations of criminal conduct has facilitated contact with Victoria Police who are the most appropriate body to investigate allegations of that nature.
“Tarryn Thomas is currently the subject of criminal charges over a reported incident and while that matter is yet to be finalized in court, the AFL will continue to work with the NMFC and Victoria Police and will monitor the outcome of the police action.”