Jorge Martínez, convicted of sexual abuse: Boca management is under investigation for having covered up the former coach

The former coach of the women’s team Boca Juniors, Jorge Martinezwas sentenced this week to a year in prison for simple sexual abuse, a case that began after the complaint of Florence Marcoa woman who worked at the club as the team’s press officer.

During the reading of the sentence, an order was given that a court should evaluate “the possible commission of the crime of perjury by Jorge Hernán Bermúdez Morales and Marcelo Alejandro Delgado”, the former footballers who are part of the club’s management presides. Juan Roman Riquelme.

Two days after the sentence against Martínez, the Courts announced that the work of Justice involves the most intimate environment of the institution’s top leader.

The journalist Sergio Farella of TN, the public prosecutor, said this Marcelo Martinez Burgos decided to open a “preliminary investigation for cover-up” by the Boca management into the case that had Martínez at the center of the scene.

This suspicion arose from the testimonies of some witnesses who testified in the Martínez case, who also reported other abuses by the former footballer while he was coach of the Boca women’s team.

In one of these stories, as expressed by TN, they mentioned a person close to Riquelme. “At the trial, a witness said that ‘Riquelme’s brother was aware of the events experienced by Florencia and did not say anything, and he also knew on the 1st’, leaving it to the discretion of his interlocutors who A was referring to. However, the most complicated in this sense would be Bermúdez and Delgado.

According to the evidence in their possession at the Prosecutor’s Office, Bermúdez and Delgado exchanged dialogues via WhatsApp with the victim before the case reached justice, but when they sat down to testify they said they had known about the matter when the complaint was filed and made public.

The former footballers testified in Martínez’s defense and the public prosecutor accepted the complainant’s defense request to be investigated for false testimony. “They were complicit because they covered up Martínez’s crime: they knew it and they covered it up,” the victim’s lawyer told TN.