Victim of female soccer coach: ‘I see you as a rapist’

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It was a promise made by young people. Women’s Football. His career in children’s teams and students in different Catalan clubs, such as Molins de Rei or Fontsanta from Cornellà de Llobregat, led him to caress his participation in the selection of his country of origin, Morocco, from which he traveled to Spain. He settled in Sant Joan Despí in 2008. His rise as a striker was abruptly interrupted when he stepped forward and his coach Francisco RT denounced the alleged constant infractions he was subjected to. He quit football and walked away from stadiums. Cell phone messages and reports from psychologists tether the accused. “I see you as a rapist,” she wrote to him. The defendant replied: “I understand that you hate me.” According to the accused, these WhatsApp messages are revenge for revealing to the family that the young man has a boyfriend after the suicide attempt.

Psychologists believe that the victim’s symptomatology, trivial, that it is “consistent” with facts, “lived experience” and “prolonged exposure during sexual assault”. The defendant, for whom the prosecutor demanded 17 years in prison (rape and money laundering), denied that he had sexual intercourse with the girl. In the understanding of these experts, the defendant’s course of action follows a common pattern: a minor, trustworthy person (his parents did not speak Spanish and he became his guardian) and using threats and pressure to pursue his alleged allegations. Sexual assaults that occurred continuously between 2013 and 2014. The girl then tried to commit suicide twice in 2015.

Conflicting feelings towards the alleged aggressor, Incidents such as being believed that she had betrayed him and adjusting to the situation he lived in just to “survive” led the victim to report his trainer months after the events of 2016. According to psychologists, the girl “did not get the support of her family” and “stayed on the sidelines”, who did not speak Spanish. Experts stated that the defendant was “a credible and reliable person” at the beginning, so it was “difficult to take the step of reporting”.

“I only accompanied him to practice”

Although the defendant Francisco R. claimed that the alleged violations in the prosecutor’s indictment were committed in his home, he completely denied that he had sexual intercourse with the victim and remained alone with the victim for a while. , her and in the car. “I was not a legal guardian and only accompanied him in training,” he claimed. He explained that they “didn’t want the Moroccan teenager at home” and told him “they beat him, let him be Spanish or be happy”. It was an ordeal to take her home; He didn’t want to go, I always tried to help him.”

The defendant gave reasons for some of the allegedly sexually explicit phone calls, stating that he always tried to calm the young woman down and that he met with her face-to-face the next day. One day, when he went to the hospital for a suicide attempt, he explained to the young woman’s Moroccan family that he had a boyfriend, and that “everything exploded”. “I can’t lie anymore,” she remembered. From there, the relationship was broken. The victim, who was fighting with his sister at the time, told Francisco R.: “You ruined my life and I’m going to ruin yours”. “He sent me 10-12 messages a day,” the defendant said.

The prosecutor insisted in his final report that the girl’s account was “”.consistent‘ and offers ‘as evidence a wealth of detail and precision that makes it utterly believable’.nuclear“It is a disgrace to make such a complaint,” he stressed. According to the public prosecutor’s office, the accused attacked the young woman in a “state of control and trust”.

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