Court extends deadline on raunchy pictures case

THE month-long affair between a much older representative of a national sporting federation and a then 18-year-old player is still the subject of ongoing legal proceedings before the high court in Pretoria.

So are the raunchy pictures which the woman sent her teenage lover at the time of the affair years ago.

The woman earlier obtained an interim interdict against the lover, his parents and coach, but the court has now extended the time-frame in which they can state their side.

When it became known to the woman last year that more people than just her lover may have had a glimpse of her naked pictures, she turned to the court to interdict him, his parents and coach from distributing the pictures.

Owing to the nature of the pictures, the age of her now former young lover and the fact that her children do not know about the illicit love affair and its consequences, the identities of the parties are being withheld. This includes not divulging the sporting body to which she belonged, but from which she has since resigned.

The application was launched by the woman and heard by the court last year, without giving the other parties – the lover, the coach and the parents, all of whom live in Pretoria – notice of it. This was because the woman feared if they got wind of it they might distribute the offending pictures further.

The court at the time issued an interim interdict, in which the young lover and his coach were ordered to divulge the names of the individuals to whom they may have forwarded the pictures – said to be nude, semi-nude or otherwise – or videos of the woman from their cellphones.

The lover, his parents and his coach were also ordered to delete all pictures and videos in their possession depicting the offended woman.

The Sheriff was further ordered to examine all devices, such as computers, on which these pictures could have been stored. This was done and forensic investigators were appointed to trace the pictures.

The respondents were given until October last year to give reasons to the court why the above orders should not be confirmed. Neither of the parties have to date filed any opposing papers and they have now been given until March 28 to state why the interdict should not be confirmed.

While she was married to her husband, the woman became involved in a relationship with the teenager barely three months after he had turned 18.

Although she was on the management side of the federation, she said she interacted with the players on a regular basis. She admitted that she had sent him some pictures of herself, “some of a raunchy nature”, but said while she was in an adulterous relationship she was still entitled to her privacy.