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Cassandra Morgan

Footy club 'should have known' about brutal abuse

Adam Kneale is seeking compensation from the Western Bulldogs for mental suffering. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

A celebrated football club fundraiser with unfettered access to young children was hiding in plain sight when he embarked on a years-long campaign of pervasive and degrading child sexual abuse, a court has heard.

Adam Kneale was just 11 years old when the "jack of all trades" Graeme Hobbs, known as "Chops", first raped him at an administration building at the Footscray Football Club's home ground in 1984.

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