This Monday The trial against Sebastián Villa, a Boca Juniors player, began for the complaint of gender violence that your ex-partner presented against you Daniela Cortes. The complainant was the first to testify before the Correctional Court 2 of Lomas de Zamoray via Zoom from Colombia and explained that The soccer player “became violent” when he drank alcohol and also noted that the shoving “was common.”
Cortés further stated that On the day of the attack that she denounced, in April 2020, Villa attacked her with blows to the forehead and kicks to the stomach after an argument when she stated that she wanted to separate.. The event occurred in the house they shared in a country in the Buenos Aires party of Canning.
As he explained, the relationship problems began when the footballer was hired by Boca and arrived in Argentina in 2018, since at that time “He started drinking alcohol and became violent, more and more each day.”
In the same sense, he remarked that the worst moment of violence within the couple was when The quarantine began due to the coronavirus pandemic because Villa “drank” alcohol and “assaulted” her and? “Whole days I couldn’t talk” with his mother via video call “because of the blows he had on his face”.
On that April 27 when she suffered the reported aggression, first on social networks and then before the Justice, Cortés maintained that the discussion began when she asked the soccer player “I didn’t give for more” and they started fighting over who would stay in the house they shared at the time. At that time, Cortés stated that the Boca striker called her mother and sister and, when she hung up the phone, he began to hit her.
“He hits me on the forehead, kicks me in the stomach, in the leg, in the thigh“, he said in his account during the debate, while Villa, sitting next to his lawyer Martín Apolo, he shook his head.
Then he assured that after this fact he stayed “two and a half months alone in the house” until she was able to return to Colombiaand affirmed that, although in Argentina until that moment he had not made the complaint, in his native country he had denounced the soccer player for gender violence.
“After he left, I talked to my parents and that’s where I decide to make the public complaint, because I feared for my family and my daughter. At that time post previous photos. In-text (from your social media post) I clarified that I did it because I couldn’t take it anymore, one blow more or one blow less was part of the landscape,” he said.
Villa is being tried for the crimes of “Minor injuries aggravated by the bond and by mediating gender violence and coercive threats.”
Other complaints against Villa for gender violence
This is not the first trial against the Boca footballer for gender violence. this second episode was denounced by a 26-year-old girl on May 13, 2022 before the same prosecutor who, although he requested the immediate arrest of Villa, the judge of Guarantees of Lomas de Zamora Javier Maffucci Moore rejected the proposal and suggested further investigation.
After being investigated for the crime of “sexual abuse with carnal access” -which provides for up to 15 years in prison-, Villa also submitted to psychological expertise between October and November which, according to his defense lawyer, revealed that the striker “He does not present features compatible with the fact that is imputed to him.”
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