Overview
- The coach, suspended by Estudiantes after Tuesday's reports, appeared at Prosecutor’s Office No. 17 on Wednesday to say he wants to give a statement and to accept psychological and psychiatric evaluations.
- Prosecutor María Eugenia Di Lorenzo is leading the case at UFI No. 17 and ordered psychological follow-up for the complainant along with a forensic medical exam as part of the inquiry.
- Estudiantes de La Plata activated its gender-violence protocol, involved its Gender and Diversity unit, and imposed a preventive suspension while urging confidentiality to protect the complainant’s identity.
- The complaint alleges repeated abuse that began in 2021 when the trainee was 16 and living in a municipal shelter, including a detailed incident where the coach allegedly took her to a La Plata hotel after a Buenos Aires boxing event.
- The accused has retained two lawyers who moved to access the case file, and his counsel says multiple people offered to testify about him as the investigation enters an adversarial stage.