The Criminal Court number 3 of Valencia has sentenced the former president of Valencia CF and former delegate of the Spanish National Team Pedro Cortés to one year and ten months in prison for sexually abusing a minor soccer player, who will have to compensate him with 6,000 euros and may not come within 200 meters of the victim or communicate with him by any means for three years.
Cortés, who had to leave his position in the Spanish Federation when the case was denounced in November 2020, will not go to prison, but will be on probation for the next two years.
The facts, denounced by the player himself, now of legal age, date back to that year, when Cortés participated in the representation of the young footballer from the Valencia youth academy who was then 16 years old. According to the Prosecutor’s Office, he forged “a relationship of trust” in which he took him to eat. In one of those meals, which was attended by other relatives of the young man, “the defendant with a libidinous mood approached the minor’s ear, and whispered to him ‘I’m going to eat you whole’, although the meal continued normally,” says the report. accusation brief.
Later he accompanied him in his car to the Sports City of Paterna, where the player lived. “During the journey, at a given moment, the defendant, guided by his libidinous spirit, while keeping his left hand on the wheel of the vehicle, placed his right hand on the minor’s left thigh, beginning to massage him in a circular motion, moving his hand around the accused up to the minor’s genital area, placing it on his penis, at which point the minor removed the defendant’s hand, who immediately told the minor “there is only one life and you have to enjoy it”.
In addition to these accounts made by the player, there is evidence of whatsapp messages sent by Cortés that contain “expressions out of place and with a lewd spirit.” “You’re mine to the balls, sucker.” “You are mine to the tip of your tail.” “I go, I eat you whole, and I come back”. “You cheat on me.” “If you want, I’m going there now and you know what’s going to happen to you,” read some of these messages that the former president assured in the trial that they were taken out of context and that they were due to the way he spoke about him. Cortés strongly denied that he had groped the young man.
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