Tyrendarra Cricket Club has finally sacked child sex offender James (Jimmy) Williams after working out having rapists on your team is a negative. But it only took widespread anger from women and men across the country to get them to this point.
Williams being let go by the cricket club follows his dismissal by the Tyrendarra Football Netball Club. Both organisations used language in their public statements that basically indicate they are sorry they caused upset - not sorry they dismissed a girl’s experience of sexual violence by a player on a footy club-sanctioned trip as secondary to his need for redemption.