A man posing as a soccer coach abused ten mostly Venezuelan boys in Callao, Peru.
James Jaffers Sono Sono (48 years old) is accused of having improperly touched several children and of having sexually abused one of them in a school located in the second stage of the Philadelphia urbanization in San Martín de Porres.
The subject was detained by the Peruvian authorities for previous complaints, improper touching that he made to a minor under 11 years of age in 2019 and for which he was being prosecuted and he was given preventive detention for seven months.
Now Sono will be investigated for these new complaints of sexual abuse and inappropriate touching of the children he has been training for three years and that he began to abuse since January of this year, according to one of the mothers of the minors to the news program Buenos Días Perú.
The events occurred in the Callo soccer field and in the subject’s house located in San Martín de Porres. There he had video games, bicycles, and other games with which he gained the trust of the minors.
While to gain the trust of the Venezuelan parents, the man told them that he had lived in Venezuela for a long time, so he preferred to have students from this country.
Sono is being held at the Bocanegra del Callao police station. It is expected that the Public Ministry will carry out the corresponding investigations and dictate the criminal sanctions that may be applicable, taking into account the new complaints that are added and aggravate his sentence.
A child gave the alert
The alert was given by one of the children, 11 years old, who suddenly changed his attitude and refused to go to training, stating that he “hated his coach”.
“My son radically changed his attitude, he didn’t want to go to the games, he didn’t want to know anything about the teacher. He didn’t want to take a bath, he didn’t want to leave the house. That gave me anguish, I began to investigate, ”said the mother of the minor to the news program Buenos Días Perú, who added that, after talking with her child, he showed her his fear that the subject would harm him or her.
It was this mother of a family who spoke with the other parents, who in turn spoke with their children and agreed on the version that the coach was inappropriately touching several of his students. Another of the parents of the victims commented that James Sono tried to kiss his son.
When Sono noticed the absence of one of his alleged victims, he called the mother to ask about the minor and told her that he wanted to give the child a speaker.
The mother found out that James Sono had said that he was going to go to a nursing home in San Juan de Lurigancho because he felt bad. That convinced the lady that the man had to be caught before he escaped.
