Graeme Hobbs, now deceased, was a volunteer at the Footscray Football Club in the 1970s and 1980s who preyed on vulnerable children in and around the club.
Rightside Legal is honoured to have represented our client Adam Kneale in an historic $5.9 million win in 2023 against the Western Bulldogs Football Club in relation to Hobbs’ abuse.
A 1993 police investigation into Hobbs turned up disturbing evidence that suggested Mr Kneale’s case was only the tip of the iceberg.
Material seized from Hobbs’s home – including boxes of photographs of primarily young boys in school uniforms, in football uniforms, in sexually explicit positions – led officers to believe there were “potentially many other victims associated with the Footscray Football Club”.
Hobbs was jailed for his abuse of vulnerable children.
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