FCF quotes a statement from those involved in allegations of sexual abuse at the women’s soccer school Club Besser

The women’s football school implicated in the sexual abuse scandal bears the name from which several parents filed complaints, in August 2022, in particular against Pierre Ignace Rodriguezschool owner, and Sebastien Esteban Rodriguez Pachontrainer of the same.

By letter addressed to Ministry of Sportswhich only took effect on December 14, 2022, the Attorney General of the Nation proceeded to file charges against the defendants, one of whom (Rodríguez) has an arrest warrant, according to what was argued by the plaintiffs.

Taking advantage of their position of power within the school, the two citizens would have provoked the anger and dissatisfaction of the parents of the footballers, who in a letter sent to the ministry, underlined that the establishment had become a “dangerous and hostile spacefor athletes aged 9 to 17.

This is how on Monday, February 13, 2023, O Radio announced that the Colombian Football Federation (FCF) summoned one of the parents to appear before the private person to make a statement before the Ethics and Disciplinary Commission (Instruction Corps) of the FCF.

With an appointment scheduled for Tuesday, February 14 at the premises of the FCF, the governing body of national football will be listening John Suarez Carrillorepresentative of victims, who will provide information and documents to determine responsibility in complaints filed with the Attorney General’s office in the second half of 2022.

This is how Suárez was informed of his summons by the FCF by email on February 8, 2023:

Respected sir, we hereby inform that, given the request for statements you made on December 5, 2022, the Ethics and Disciplinary Commission-Investigative Body of the Colombian Football Federation (hereinafter ” CEOIFCF”), it is permitted to summon him at the respective diligence, so that he renders his free version, on the facts which are the subject of this investigation, and provides all the documents he deems relevant.

Thus, the statement of Mr. JOHN SUÁREZ CARRILLO will be taken in person at the premises of the Colombian Football Federation (Carrera 45 #9 n°94-06), on February fourteen (14), 2023 at 11:30 a.m. h In this sense, we invite you to come to the aforementioned address, on the date and at the time indicated above.

FCF internal investigation into the sexual abuse scandal at a women's football school in Bogotá / (FCF)
FCF internal investigation into the sexual abuse scandal at a women’s football school in Bogotá / (FCF)

Among the acts denounced by the relatives of the athletes were reports of abusive manipulation; send girls and adolescents photographs of their genitals; request for images of pornographic content; harassment; threats; and maintaining sexual relationships, as well as acts of manipulation and subjugation.

It should be recalled that the complaints in question had been revealed at the time by the station snail radiowho had access to the letter sent by the parents and which reached the hands of the Minister of Sports of Colombia, Marie-Isabelle Urrutia:

It is a highly respected institution in national women’s football that has produced some outstanding female footballers and is even part of the current Colombian women’s football team. MM. Pedro Ignacio Rodríguez Rodríguez and Sebastián Esteban Rodríguez Pachón (the latter, coach), turned this women’s football school into a scene of abuse and sexual harassment of minors

As the opinion section of the newspaper El Espectador learned, The Igualadaswere the parents of four young people who decided to raise their voices against Rodríguez Pachón, coach of the Besser football school, owned by his father, Pedro Rodríguez.

At the end of August 2022, the four known complaints of El Espectador revealed that the coach seemed to be a “confidant and friend” of his students, as he knew their sadness and frustrations, but then asked them to send images naked and he sent photos of their private parts without their consent in some cases.

Categorized in: