Woman charged over posting explicit footage of ex-Pies star
A SOUTH Australian woman has been charged over filming a nude romp involving former Collingwood star Dane Swan and sharing the video online.
Police will allege the 20year-old posted the phone video, showing a nude Swan and a woman kissing in a bed, without his consent.
Police investigated after he had appealed to officers to stop the spread of the six-second clip on social media.
A woman can be seen laughing as she films Swan as he tries to cover his head.
Under Victorian sexting laws, people can be jailed for up to two years for distributing intimate images or videos without the person’s consent.
At the time of the video surfacing, Swan, who has been in a relationship with Taylor Wilson for almost 10 years, denied the video was a sex tape.
“Although the video was taken a long time ago, it has been posted and distributed only recently. It was taken and distributed without my consent,” said the Brownlow medallist, who retired in 2016.
Victoria Police said yesterday the woman’s offences related to the “capture and distribution of the video”.
“Stonnington Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a 20-year-old Mead- ows (SA) woman in relation to video of a sexual nature alleged to have been distributed electronically,” it said.
The woman will appear in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on December 10.
Swan contacted Twitter users who were spreading the video’s images and threatened legal action.