This Wednesday, the arrest of a 34-year-old football coach with a police record was known, as the perpetrator of crimes of child pornography and incitement to prostitution, sexual assault and sexual cyber harassment of minors and exhibitionism in Arrecife.
This editorial team has been able to speak with Basilio Coco, coordinator of the grassroots categories of Orientación Marítima, the club in which the detainee worked as a coach for children between 10 and 13 years old. Coco told La Voz that, from the first time the accused was investigated last November, "he was removed from his position as coach because, in addition, he had already been absent from training for a few days and told us that he had problems."
In addition, he assured that the team and himself were "taken by surprise" and that "until the last moment we wanted to think it was not true and that it had been a mistake because he is a boy who has been in the team for many years and we have never thought badly of him because he has even been my son's coach and I never suspected anything," he says. In this sense, he pointed out that "this situation is very strong and they are in shock."
Likewise, he continued making it clear that any person in the club, whether monitor or coach, is asked for a criminal record certificate, something that was also done in the case of the coach. "The first thing that both the law and the Federation require is the updated sexual offenses record, but not from last year, but updated, and if you have any type of crime you cannot sign that person," he said.
