The young woman who accused the Colombian soccer player Sebastián Villa, of Boca Juniors, of aggravated sexual abuse and deprivation of liberty, ratified this Monday his complaint before the Argentine justice, informed his lawyer.
“What she is denouncing is extremely serious,” Roberto Castillo, the complainant’s lawyer, told the news channel C5N that he testified for several hours in the Esteban Echeverría courts, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
“We come to ratify and expand a little more the complaint and incorporate some evidence,” explained the lawyer upon entering the court.
The woman, whose identity and nationality are unknownleft the place with his face covered and without making statements to the press.
“She’s scared to death” stated his legal representative.
On Friday, the woman had submitted a brief that was referred to the Decentralized and Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes of Gender Violence that banned Villa, 25, from leaving Argentina and approach the complainant.
After the complaint, Boca Juniors issued a statement in which it said to “at the disposal” of the young and ratified “its commitment to gender and equality situations” without separating the striker from the squad.
The complaint was made known on Friday. one day before the semifinal match of the Argentine League Cup that Boca beat Racing on penalties 6-5 after a goalless draw in the 90 minutes.
Boca advanced to the final of the tournamentwho will play on Saturday against Tigre.
During the game, in which Villa started, the Colombian was insulted several times by Racing fans alluding to the accusation of rape.
the colombianor he will not be in the squad that will receive Corinthians on Tuesday for the Copa Libertadores but because he still has suspension dates in the continental tournament.
Villa has been facing a case for gender-based violence since 2020 as a result of a complaint from his partner at the time, the Colombian Daniela Cortés, for physical and psychological abuse.
The new complaint refers to events that allegedly occurred on June 26, 2021.
According to the young woman in her lawsuit, that day the soccer player, while intoxicated, he attacked her on the way back from a dinner at a friend’s house.
“Once the sexual submission is over I started crying uncontrollably and I begged him to let me go, to which he told me that I could not leave until I calm down,” he said in his letter.
The woman assured that the soccer player tried to bribe with 5,000 dollars to prevent him from reporting it.