NSW: Woman in hiding after Johns group sex revelations
19 May 2009 7:28 PM
The New Zealand woman at the centre of the MATTHEW JOHNS group sex scandal has gone into hiding.
JOHNS' media and NRL coaching career is in tatters after the ABC's Four Corners program last Monday aired new details of a 2002 group sex incident in New Zealand while he was playing for the Cronulla Sharks.
JOHNS was one of several Cronulla players involved in a group sex act involving a 19-year-old woman .. identified only as CLARE .. in Christchurch.
Four Corners has released a statement saying it wants to answer a number of questions which have arisen in response to the story.
The statement says CLARE is distressed by the media response towards her after the program.
CLARE says she feels like she's living in a nightmare .. saying all she wanted to do was to make people aware of the culture and stop it happening to other girls.
Four Corners says CLARE wasn't paid for the interview and hasn't boasted about fallout from the story.
