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Young Socceroo accused of sex with girl, 13
smh.com.au
Suspended Young Socceroos skipper Sebastian Ryall has been committed to stand trial, accused of engaging in a sex act with a 13-year-old girl.
Ryall, 20, of St Kilda, is accused of having sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl in the early hours of January 25, 2008, near the Pittwater RSL Club.
The alleged offence involved the girl performing oral sex on the Sydney FC defender.
Co-accused Alistair Lupton, 20, of Collaroy on Sydney's northern beaches, is charged with the same offence, although with a different 13-year-old girl.
Both men have claimed the girls told them they were aged 16.
At the pair's committal hearing at Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court today, Constable Carly Pritchett said the young men exclaimed disbelief when told how young the girls were.
"I can't believe this. They told us they were 16," she recalled Lupton as saying.
Ryall's barrister, Ian Lloyd, QC, said police had never sourced any CCTV footage, making it impossible to present to a jury how the girls and the young men were dressed, how old the girls looked or how inebriated the young men appeared.
However, magistrate John Andrews committed the pair to stand trial, saying there was sufficient evidence to take the case to a jury trial.
Ryall and Lupton will stand trial in the Downing Centre District Court on February 5.
Their bail has been continued.
