{"id":844432,"date":"2026-08-05T13:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/844432\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:20:10","slug":"justin-downs-survivor-speaks-out-after-attacker-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/844432\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Downs: Survivor speaks out after attacker sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anastasia Treharne says she feels unsafe in her own home.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old professional dancer was raped by Justin Downs in 2022 after meeting him in Sydney through a dating app.<\/p>\n

\"Anastasia<\/p>\n

Anastasia Treharne says she feels unsafe in her own home.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n

\u201cWe met on Bumble,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just got to talking of what our plans were for that night and we ended up just organising that I\u2019d go over to his.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were drinking, we were just talking to each other, yeah, seemed normal enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started kissing on the bench and we went to the bedroom and it started as consensual sex.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

After four years and a lengthy trial, Justin Downs was found guilty of one count of rape.\u00a0Kate Geraghty<\/p>\n

Things took a turn and Treharne told Downs to stop but he refused.<\/p>\n

Treharne says when the assault ended she fled to a nearby petrol station where a friend picked her up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just wanted to get as far away as possible,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Treharne went straight to a hospital and reported the incident to police the following morning.<\/p>\n

After four years and a lengthy trial, Downs was found guilty of one count of rape.<\/p>\n

Treharne was relieved by the verdict, but she wasn\u2019t prepared for what came next.<\/p>\n

Downs was sentenced to a three-year community corrections order, avoiding jail time.<\/p>\n

Watch the full story in the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anastasia Treharne says she feels unsafe in her own home. The 23-year-old professional dancer was raped by Justin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-844432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844432","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=844432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}