The son of AFL great Stephen Silvagni has been jailed for more than six years for raping a woman and then forging a rideshare receipt in an attempt to cover it up.<\/p>\n
Tom Silvagni, 23, looked straight ahead on the video link from prison as Victorian County Court Judge Gregory Lyon handed down his sentence on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
His parents Stephen and Jo, who were in the courtroom, did not react to the jail term.<\/p>\n
Silvagni denied he digitally raped his friend\u2019s girlfriend at his Melbourne<\/a> home in the early hours of 14 January 2024.<\/p>\n The woman had consensual sex with her boyfriend at the house but then he organised an Uber and left the property shortly before 2am.<\/p>\n Silvagni then lied, telling the woman her boyfriend would be returning upstairs because his Uber had been cancelled.<\/p>\n But it was Silvagni who went into the dark bedroom a short time later and pretended to be the woman\u2019s boyfriend before digitally raping her twice.<\/p>\n In the days after, he doctored an Uber receipt to make it look like the victim\u2019s boyfriend had left the house after 2.30am.<\/p>\n Silvagni admitted forging the receipt but said he did so because he panicked after being falsely accused of rape.<\/p>\n But a County Court jury rejected his story, finding him guilty of two counts of rape on 5 December.<\/p>\n Judge Lyon described the offending as egregious and callous as he jailed Silvagni for six years and two months.<\/p>\n He will be eligible for parole after three years and three months.<\/p>\n Information and support for anyone affected by rape or sexual abuse is available from the following organisations. In Australia, support is available at 1800Respect<\/a> (1800 737 732). In the UK, Rape Crisis<\/a> offers support on 0808 500 2222. In the US, Rainn<\/a> offers support on 800-656-4673. Other international helplines can be found at ibiblio.org\/rcip\/internl.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The son of AFL great Stephen Silvagni has been jailed for more than six years for raping a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-352758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}