I hope KB (Kurtley Beale) is duly punished but not lost. There are many other forms of punishments that are appropriate to satisfy ARU need for safe workplace such as suspended sentence, trainings and workshops and appease anti-bullying campaigners such as community service at charity etc. The ARU has a duty of care and responsibility to a player they have raised within their systems.
I hate this "duty of care" crap. In Kurtley's case, everything he has ever done wrong, it's blatantly obvious that these things were wrong.
In most cases he has been punished, and then his behavior has erred again later.
What employer has a "duty of care" to educate their employees to the basic rules and laws of society?
But that brings it back to what's duly punished? If this was the only time Beale had stepped out of line in his 6 or 7 years in the game, perhaps a harsh punishment that doesn't involve termination would be reasonable.
Whilst it's a serious offence that he has allegedly committed, in isolation you could reasonable believe that it is an anomaly of character.
But it's just another item in a pattern of behavior. Unless i'm wrong, was he not already on his last chance after the Rebels incident(s) last year?
At some point you have to say, it's no longer acceptable. Punishments are used as a deterrent, and you have a responsibility to the game to apply these punishments to deter others from similar actions.