With a St Kilda jumper as bait, paedophile coaches turned boyhood dreams into nightmares

Like so many other boys, he could ignore the uncomfortable moments if it meant pulling on a St Kilda jumper. It was 1976. He was 11 years old. A friendly man with a doting wife and a baby in the pram beside them offered him a game in the Saints Little League team.

The man said he was the team…