An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her football coach.

The shocking revelation has been made about a little girl who was brutally and repeatedly r*ped by the football coach while the wife watched.

 

According to the Sun UK, the girl was later diagnosed with HIV, which she claims she contracted from the coach of the team in southern Sydney. The allegations were heard today as part of the inquiry into how sporting organisations respond to allegations of sexual abuse of children.

 

In a statement, read out to the commission by another person, it was revealed that the girl passed through hell as a child because of the incident.

 

The now 27-year-old woman was too distressed to give evidence in person but her statement said her mother, who had a drinking and drug problem at the time, allowed her to stay at the coach’s home after soccer, training, on weekends and during school holidays.

 

“At the beginning the coach and his wife were very nice,” BXA said.

 

“They were touchy-feely ... I felt it was too much touching and a bit creepy.

“The first time the coach raped me was a Friday night.”

 

BXA then said he would abuse her every time she stayed over at his house.

 

She said the wife would often be there in the room.

 

“She would either be laying on the bed or somewhere in the room. His wife would say to me, ‘It’s OK' and, 'It’s all right’.”

 

BXA said the wife would often come into the spare room where she was sleeping and take her back to the coach’s bedroom “and stay in the room while he raped me”.

 

The alleged victim said she did not tell her mother because she thought she would be blamed for causing trouble.

 

In March 2003, shortly before her 15th birthday, she was diagnosed with HIV. Doctors told her that she probably had it for “quite a few years”, she said.

 

BXA said she had never had a boyfriend or a blood transfusion since the alleged rapes.

 

“I believe I got HIV from the coach,” she said.

 

Earlier, the inquiry heard the allegation of abuse only came to light after the girl handed a note to a classmate which said at she was “raped in year 3 but no one knows”.

 

In November 1999 she wrote the note, but it was intercepted by a teacher who informed DOCS.

 

The coach was charged, but he was found not guilty by the Campbelltown District Court in May 2001.

 

BXA told the commission that police advised her that there was not enough evidence to convict the coach.