NRL star Shaun Kenny-Dowall allegedly assaulted girlfriend seven times

Shaun Kenny-Dowall and his partner Jessica Peris in a photo sourced from his Instagram @skennydowall SUN 19Jul15.

Kiwis league star Shaun Kenny-Dowall allegedly assaulted Jessica Peris seven times and is facing 10 domestic violence charges, court documents have revealed.

The charges are: assault occasioning actual bodily harm; six counts of common assault; one count each of damaging Ms Peris' mobile phone, stalking or intimidating her and using a mobile phone to menace, harass or be offensive.

Police allege Kenny-Dowall who lives in Maroubra in Sydney's east, assaulted Ms Peris seven times and once intimidated her with intent to causing Ms Peris physical or mental harm.

The 28-year-old winger is expected to plead not guilty to 10 charges related to domestic assault and stalking when he appears in court on Thursday.

The incidents, except on one occasion, all allegedly took place in the afternoon or evening, the latest occurring between 12.30am and 12.40am.

Ms Peris - the daughter of former Australian Olympic star Nova Peris - and Kenny-Dowall are believed to have been in an 18 month de facto relationship which ended just weeks ago.

According to documents filed in Waverley court ahead of Thursday and obtained exclusively by Daily Mail Australia, the incident in which Kenny-Dowall allegedly assaulted and harmed Ms Peris and destroyed her phone happened between 4pm and 9.30pm on October 10 last year.

The next alleged incident occurred on February 26 this year at Maroubra, when the footballer allegedly committed a common assault on Ms Peris.

Similar incidents, police allege, took place over the next three months.

Ms Peris is the daughter of Australia's first indigenous Olympic gold medal winner, Nova Peris,

In 2012 Ms Peris' former partner, rugby union player Jah Coe, pleaded guilty to damaging her property and breaching a protection order she had against him in,
Kenny-Dowall, who spent most of his early years in New Zealand, debuted with the Roosters in 2007 and has since been a noted try scorer.