The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has turned its attention to sports groups and associations.
Among the allegations raised at a hearing in Sydney was that of a woman who says as a child she was raped by her football coach.
The child sexual abuse royal commission has heard from a 27-year-old woman who says her childhood football coach repeatedly raped her when she was just eight years old.
A statement read in court by a friend of the woman known as witness BXA says the unidentified man from Sydney's south-western suburbs took what was described as a fatherly interest in her.
The statement says the alleged abuse started when she was invited to sleep at his home on the nights before competitive matches.
"The first time the coach raped me was on a Friday night. The coach came into my bedroom and lay on the bed beside me and began touching me. The coaches wife would often be there. She would be either laying on the bed or sitting somewhere in the room. His wife would say things to me like, 'it's okay, it's all alright.'"
The court heard Witness BXA had tested positive for HIV just before her 15th birthday, doctors apparently telling her she had become infected years earlier.
"I told them I had not had any boyfriends since being raped. I hadn't taken any drugs, and I hadn't had any drug transfusions. Because I lived in a house with drug addicts, my family was later tested for HIV, but they were all clear. I believe I got HIV from the coach."
The man in question was charged but acquitted, and later jailed in a separate case involving allegations of child abuse.
Michelle Hanley has been a child protection officer with Football New South Wales since 2000.
Ms Hanley was questioned about the sporting body's response at the time allegations against the coach were mounting.
"Obviously the matter that we're discussing, you know, fuelled my desire to make sure that you know we were doing as much as we could. Everybody had as much information as they could possibly have."
Counsel Assisting Gail Furness says the royal commission also intends to examine allegations against top tennis coach Noel Callaghan - who has mentored some of Australia's elite players.
She says Mr Callaghan is accused of abusing a woman almost 20 years ago when she was 16 years old.
"On one occasion in 1997, Mr Callaghan told her 'if you lose this rally you'll have to give me a blowjob'. While on a five day tennis camp at Sydney University, Mr Callaghan entered her room late at night and made sexual advances to her including by straddling her on the bed and trying to kiss her."
Ms Furness says charges against Mr Callaghan relating to three players were either dismissed or he was found not guilty.
A total of 23 witnesses are appearing before the Royal Commission this week, including some of the country's most senior sports administrators.
The public hearing will focus on the procedures and policies used by sporting groups and associations to protect children, in order to see if they are really working.
Among those to give evidence will be Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates, and Chef de Mission Fiona de Jong.
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