Sri Lanka women’s cricket team forced to perform sexual favours for officials

[muriel_volestrangler]

Sri Lanka’s sports ministry said on Friday that an investigation had found evidence that members of the national women’s cricket team had been forced to perform sexual favours for officials in order to earn or keep their places in the squad.

Sri Lanka Cricket, the controlling body for the island nation’s most popular sport, ordered an investigation in November after reports emerged alleging officials had asked female cricketers for sex in exchange for being on the team.
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Local media reports in late October quoted an unnamed senior female cricketer, who claimed that team management and officials selecting players had asked women cricketers to have sex with them if they wanted to make the team.

The allegations, which first appeared in the Sinhala-language newspaper Divaina, said the senior player was dropped from the squad after she refused to perform sexual favours.

http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/sri-lanka-womens-cricket-team-forced-to-perform-sexual-favours-finds-probe/

That's low. I hope that is a criminal offence, so that the officials go to jail.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. This is horrible and not terribly surprising.

These officials (mostly men, I'd wager) are doing what people in positions of power often do: exploiting those in their power for sex.

Disgusting.

[shenmue]

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