This Tuesday we reported in the note The dark story behind the fight between Brahian Aleman and the gymnastics youth, about different violent events during the so-called “baptisms” of soccer.
Well, this Wednesday the La Plata Gymnastics Board of Directors began to investigate an alleged sexual abuse of a youth player during one of those initiation rites.
According to C5N, the young footballer’s family filed a claim and formal complaint at the club, but it did not reveal whether there is a police complaint or legal case. The journalist Pablo Carrozza pointed out that “there are families willing to talk about the former GELP players, and the former CD of the club. The father of a juvenile assures me that Pellegrino at the time forced him to withdraw a complaint.
And he specified: “There is talk of a former GELP player who entered the room of a youth and put his whistle in his face, as a rite of passage. That is not a baptism. It’s sexual abuse.”
DC’s response
“We are very concerned about the issue and we are analyzing the steps to follow together with the professionals who work in the institution,” the Gymnastics Board of Directors reported to the medium 0221. And they clarified that the event would have occurred under the previous management, when the president was Gabriel Pellegrino.
