Venezuelan justice issued a arrest warrant for Kenneth Zseremeta, former coach of the women’s soccer team, accused by 24 players of having sexually abused one of them, in addition to having subjected them to physical and psychological harassment.
This was announced this Friday Tarek William Saab, Attorney General, who explained that the request was made by a member of the Public Ministry “and was agreed by the corresponding court”, although he did not clarify which court it is. He also issued a arrest warrant against technical assistant William Pino, pointed out by the footballers of complicity.
In the message, he also published a photo of the order requested by the Prosecutor’s Office in which the prosecutor details that the crime prosecuted is that of “continuous sexual abuse with penetration of adolescents, foreseen and sanctioned in article 260 (…) of the Organic Law for the Protection of Boys, Girls and Adolescents ”.
The complaint was made last Tuesday by a group of 24 footballers in a statement released by Deyna Castellanos, Atletico Madrid player, and, in it, they explain that they decided to “break the silence to prevent situations of abuse and physical, psychological and sexual harassment, caused by ”Zseremeta, “Take more victims in women’s football and in the world”.
They stated that, “from 2013 to 2017, there were numerous incidents around the figure of coach Zseremeta, the most common like the physical and psychological abuse during training ”.
In the text, they also explain that, in 2020, one of them “She confessed that she had been sexually abused since she was 14 by the coach”, an abuse that “lasted until he was fired”, in 2017.
“This has been news that, for all of us, has been very difficult to assimilate, to the degree that many of us we feel guilty for having been so close to all this and not having realized something so serious and punishableThey concluded.
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Source-eldiariony.com