The four former Vélez players accused of abuse have been fired and the victim will appeal

The Tucuman judge was dismissed Sebastian Sosa, Brian Cufre, Jose Florentin And Abiel Osoriowhich the four former Vélez players are accused of abused a young journalist in a hotel before a match against Atlético Tucumán in 2024. The decision was made after the hearing in which the parties’ proposals were discussed and it was determined that “the act does not constitute a crime“.

The decision was made by the judge Augusto José Paz Almonacidfrom the Capital Judicial Center’s College of Criminal Judges, which denied the appellant’s request to testify The report carried out is null to the cell phones of witnesses close to her in the case that occurred on March 3 last year in a room at a prestigious hotel in Tucumán.

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TO Florentín and Cufréwho currently plays for Central Córdoba, was accused: “sexual abuse with difficult carnal access through the participation of two or more people as authors”; Osorio (currently Defense and Justice), for “sexual abuse with carnal access as the author”, since then soda (now in Juventud de las Piedras), but for this crime as secondary participant.

The public prosecutor’s office did not support the request for dismissal of Florentín, Cufré and OsorioHowever, supported the request of Sosa’s defense, led by Jorge Barrera. In this way, the final word fell to Almonacid, in a hearing that analyzed an opinion from the Scientific Tax Investigations Team (ECIF), which had already been classified in the complaint “biased”.

Based on this report, the victim’s conversation with her friends and other relatives, as well as the images from the hotel’s surveillance cameras and her behavior the day before the incident, the judge concluded that after almost two years ““It was not possible to collect the required number of elements” to continue the trial against the footballers.

“Following the alleged incident, at 5:46 a.m., the hotel cameras that recorded her departure show that she She walked normally and uprighteven folding the shirt, which was later confirmed It belonged to one of the defendants“, maintains one of the arguments of the verdict. Another points out that the journalist sent the goalkeeper a message as she left the room.

“On March 3, 2024 at 6:18 a.m. I sent the defendant Sosa an emoji, namely a little mouse giving a heart, which is very clear It contradicts the story of his complaint and with previous sexual abuse,” he emphasizes, adding at the same time that she knew why she was going to the hotel. and who he would meet, and he brought the alcoholic drink with him, which was drunk in a thermos.

The victim announced that she would appeal the verdict

The press officer’s lawyers, Patricia Neme And Alejandro CharThey already foresaw that they will appeal the resolution. “The judge did not take into account the evidence presented by the victim. He only evaluated a telephone statement from the witnesses, which we will also challenge, which he described as a conversation with friends,” said Neme in an interview with the broadcaster. TN.

Among the elements that were not taken into account in the case, he mentioned that there are medical and biological expertisedigital evidence added to the file, Communication records and other witness statements. The lawyer regretted that they were not analyzed with judicial immediacy in an oral debate, but stressed that the dismissal does not mean innocence, since it is a decision that concerns this can be checked at higher levels.

In this sense, the young woman said before the news signal: “These are the days when you feel that the path you took was worthless.” a lot of helplessness, angerand this feeling began the moment the judge came I insisted so much on being fired in an oral hearing that was requested with the complaint against objections from the public prosecutor’s office.”

She also claimed that the decision “affects her” but that she considers it to be “foreseeable in the foreseeable future.” Tucuman lives up to it doesn’t care about the victims at all“From the verdict, he highlighted that the judge said she walked upright, had a good time the next day and gave Sosa an emoji. “This also makes us as a society think about the justice given to a victim of abuse: We have to crawl, we have to feel post-traumatic stress to the touch, “We must go into shock at the touch, we must free ourselves from feelings of guilt and shame,” he concluded.

For his part, the 39-year-old goalkeeper announced the verdict on his social networks, explaining that it was a “a harsh sentence” and was grateful that the judge had clarified “all the painful facts”..

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