4 players from a club in Argentina are accused of sexual abuse – 2024-03-09 16:58:17

Once again a scandal with a sexual nature convulses Argentine football. This time, the protagonists of a new accusation of abuse are four players from Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield, a militant team in the first division tournament and notable for being one of the few South American world champion teams at the club level.

At noon on Thursday, March 7, the justice system of the Province of Tucumán announced that the players Sebastián Sosa, Braian Cufré, Abiel Osorio and José Ignacio Florentín are being investigated for an accusation by a 24-year-old girl for alleged sexual abuse. occurred last Sunday the 3rd after the match his team played against Atlético Tucumán.

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Complaint details

According to the Prosecutor’s Unit for Abuse Against Sexual Integrity No. 1 of Tucumán, the female journalism student, whose identity has been kept secret until now, declared that she made contact with the Uruguayan goalkeeper, Sebastián Sosa, through messages through the Instagram application. , to invite her to the Hilton Garden Inn hotel.

Upon arrival at the site, she shared some beer and several drinks of fernet, a situation that a few minutes later the story tells, she began “to feel bad, very dizzy.” The complaint details that she felt numb and, while she was trying to recover, she was sexually abused without any consent.

After receiving the statements, the prosecution ordered protocol examinations of the victim and an analysis of the clothing she was wearing at the time of the attack, and also requested videos from the hotel’s security cameras to corroborate or deny the fact.

Separated “preventively”

Quickly after the scandal became public, Vélez Sarsfield preventively separated the four accused, a measure that is part of its protocol of action in cases of gender-based violence of the Institution. Through an official statement, the Board of Directors expressed that it was at the disposal of Justice to provide information to the investigation.