Sebastián Villa case: the player is subjected to a psychiatric examination for the report of sexual abuse

This Thursday will be key day in the case investigating the allegation of sexual abuse against Colombian footballer Sebastián Villa. The Boca Juniors striker will be subjected to aa psychiatric report in the courts of Lomas de Zamora.

The study was requested by the prosecutor Vanesa González, head of the Functional Education Unit (UFI) 3 Specializing in Family and Gender Violence, Sexual Abuse and Trafficking in Persons of Lomas de Zamora, and will be conducted from 10: 30 in Larroque at 2300, in the offices of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of that jurisdiction of Buenos Aires.

Judicial sources have assured the Télam agency that the appraisal to which Villa will be subjected will be carried out by a forensic psychiatrist of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in order to establish “the traits and / or characteristics of the personality of the accused; any pathologies or conditions he presents ; and if you suffer from any mental illness or disorder involving any degree of consciousness disturbance or affectation of self-criticism “.

Villa’s defense attorney, Martín Apolo, filed a brief to appoint a party expert to participate in the appraisal.

Villa is charged in the case for the alleged “sexual abuse” of a 26-year-old girl foror has not yet been investigated by the prosecutor.

It is probable that the prosecutor awaits the outcome of this psychiatric examination to which the accused will be subjected and the analysis of the latest chat messages incorporated into the case by the victim, and then decides whether to call him for questioning.

The complaint against Sebastián Villa

It was presented in writing on May 13 to Esteban Echeverría’s UFI 3 and three days later the complainant ratified it in person at the prosecutor’s office.

The victim told, first in writing and then in court, that the incident took place on the night of June 26, 2021, in the village “Cervo II” from the city of Canning, in Buenos Aires, where the footballer lived and after a barbecue attended by other players of the xeneize team.

According to the complaint, Villa had consumed “a lot of alcohol” and started berating him for suspecting he liked them or had been with other players on campus.

After having a heated argument, they both left their posts and went to the footballer’s house along with a security officer and a friend of the football player and there she said Villa locked her in a room, sexually abused her and tried to suffocate her.

The young woman presented as evidence some exchanges of messages in which Villa apologized for what had happened and justified himself by saying that he had “drunk a lot” and also denounced that the player sent him. $ 5,000 so as not to file a complaint, a sum which he then returned.

For its part, the judge of the Guarantees 2 of Lomas de Zamora, Javier Maffucci Moore, has issued a precautionary measure which provides for a perimeter restriction and impediment to contact between Villa and the victimbut he rejected a request for a ban on leaving the country for the player, as it had been adopted in the previous case for gender-based violence against his former partner last year and is still in force.

With information from Telam