Joffa was a regular fixture in the Collingwood cheer squad. (Nine)
The Fawkner Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team detectives launched an investigation into the historical sex offences last year.
Mr Corfe has been bailed to face the Melbourne Magistrates Court July 30. Collingwood condemns without qualification inappropriate conduct of any kind but cannot, and will not, comment on matters before the courts, it read.
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Cardinal George Pell has revealed humiliating prison strip searches were the worst part about being in jail before his child sex abuse convictions were quashed.
Australia s highest-ranking Catholic official was wrongly convicted in December 2018 of five counts of sexually abusing two 13-year-old choirboys at Melbourne s St Patrick s Cathedral in 1996.
He spent 405 days behind bars before his six-year jail sentence was overturned in a final appeal to the High Court in April 2020.
Pell, 79, said there were times during his undignified stint behind bars when he thought he would have to wait until the Christian afterlife to be vindicated.
Cardinal George Pell presides over the mass at Barangaroo, Sydney for the opening of World Youth Day on Tuesday, July 15, 2008. He has told a radio interview (pictured) how the humiliation of prison strip searches was the worst part about being in jail
The case against former
MasterChef contestant Ben Ungermann, who was accused of sexually touching a teenage girl, is expected to be finalised this week with the chef to instead be charged with one count of common assault.
In a surprising twist in the case late on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Ungermann’s lawyer told Melbourne Magistrates Court the case would proceed on one alternative charge of common law assault, rather than the original charges of sexual assault.
Ben Ungermann left
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The agreement was struck after a magistrate refused an application to have the case thrown out of court made by Mr Ungermann’s lawyers, who raised concerns that the victim had been allegedly coached by police.
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A truck driver who hit and killed four Melbourne police officers while high on drugs told a colleague his boss had cleaned his spirit and rid him of a curse before the crash.
That boss, Connect Logistics manager Simiona Tuteru, faces 82 charges including manslaughter after allegedly directing or requiring Mohinder Singh to work while fatigued.
Singh insisted on delivering by this one load that fatal afternoon in April 2020, fellow truck driver Michael Horrocks told Melbourne Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
Mohinder Singh (pictured) crashed a 19-tonne delivery truck on the Eastern Freeway on April 22 last year
Left to right: Constable Glen Humphris, Senior Constable Kevin King, Leading Senior Constable Lynette Taylor and Constable Joshua Prestney all died in the crash