“He made me feel like an object and was looking straight through me.
“My vagina was stinging in a throb-like sensation and I couldn’t understand or fully comprehend that he had just done that to me. I sat on my bed hugging my knees and staring into nothingness.”
She said the assault left her in a state of “devastation – mentally, physically socially and academically”.
“I don’t remember the last time I had a proper night’s sleep,” she said.
“The violation I experienced was the shameful feeling of letting someone I don’t know come into my home, was and is almost too hard to cope with.
Crime by Steve Zemek  Jarryd Hayne s rape victim has spoken in court about rumours and innuendo that swirled around the case, saying the assault left her feeling dirty and violated . People talk about my vagina, my choices, and like to give their opinions based on what they ve heard and it is the most helpless feeling, the woman, who cannot be identified, told the Newcastle District Court on Wednesday. Hayne is facing a sentence hearing as he gets set to learn how long he will spend in jail. He had a dozen friends and family waiting to protect him from the rain and push away reporters as he arrived for sentencing.
Content warning: This story contains references to sexual assault.
Disgraced former NRL star Jarryd Hayne has been jailed for at least three years and eight months for attacking a young woman in her bedroom on the night of the 2018 NRL grand final.
District Court Judge Helen Syme in Newcastle on Thursday said Hayne had to be jailed because non-consensual sexual intercourse was an extreme form of violence which the community expected courts to take very seriously.
The judge noted Hayne only stopped attacking the victim when she started to bleed, not when she was telling him no and stop. She (the victim) has every right to feel safe from attack in the privacy of her home, the judge said.
Poster boy to prisoner: Hayneâs final hours All eyes will be on Jarryd Hayne as the two-time Dally M medallist faces 14 years in jail for aggravated sexual assault.
Crime by David Riccio
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Subscriber only AT 10am on Thursday, in room 6.2 of the Newcastle District Court, Jarryd Hayne will stand for sentencing. In the courtroom seats behind him, holding so many nerves over the past few days that they have hardly slept, will be Hayne s closest friends and family. Outside, the rugby league world will wait for the thud of the outcome to emerge. The day, that few in Australian sport could ever have predicted, has arrived.
Poster boy to prisoner: Hayneâs final hours All eyes will be on Jarryd Hayne as the two-time Dally M medallist faces 14 years in jail for aggravated sexual assault.
Crime by David Riccio
Premium Content
Subscriber only AT 10am on Thursday, in room 6.2 of the Newcastle District Court, Jarryd Hayne will stand for sentencing. In the courtroom seats behind him, holding so many nerves over the past few days that they have hardly slept, will be Hayne s closest friends and family. Outside, the rugby league world will wait for the thud of the outcome to emerge. The day, that few in Australian sport could ever have predicted, has arrived.