The Uruguayan footballer Sebastian Sosa He was released by the Argentine Ministry of Justice in the last few hours and can now “lead a normal life,” assured his lawyer News Agency. Jorge Barrera.
“You can work,” the professional added, and the ban on leaving the country for the next 90 days was applied as a precautionary measure, he explained.
Barrera explained that Sosa has been charged and is under investigation for “secondary involvement” in the sexual abuse reported by a 24-year-old woman in Tucumán in early March.
“He is not being investigated as an author or co-author,” Barrera said, simply because of a “minor involvement” in the events.
Three more football players from Velez were accused of sexual abuse and the court ruled that they could await trial under house arrest.
After the complaint and the start of the tax investigation, Velez decided to terminate the contracts with all footballers involved.
The complaint.
A 24-year-old girl reported that on March 3 she was the victim of sexual abuse by four soccer players from Vélez, among whom she also mentioned Sosa.
The complainant appeared before the Tucumán police with her lawyer Patricia Neme and said that on March 2, at 10:00 p.m., when the match between Vélez and Atlético de Tucumán ended, she “made contact” with Sosa, who sent her Instagram messages inviting her to the hotel where the team was staying, the report accessed by Underrayado said.
The young woman said she was ready to go and that she arrived at around 12:40 p.m. on March 3 and went to room 407.
Sosa was there, he said, but also the football players Cufré, Florentín and Osorio, with whom he later drank beer and Fernet.
“After drinking a few drinks, she began to feel bad, very dizzy, so she lay down on one of the beds as if sleepy,” the text of the complaint reads.
There she stated that she had been abused, that there had been no consent and that she had left at half past five in the morning when she was feeling better. He went home.
The Tucumán police reported the complaint to the Sexual Integrity Abuse Unit No. 1 of the Public Prosecutor’s Office. The head of the department ordered examinations of the victim, confiscated the clothes that the young woman had handed over and requested images from the security cameras of the hotel where the team was staying.