“A complaint like this destroys you and I am going to prove my innocence”

The trial for the accusation of sexual abuse against the former coach of the Boca Juniors women’s team Jorge Martínez was put on hold. This Monday, when the final hearing was to take place in the Comodoro Py Courts, the judge Sergio Paduczak received a request for recusal from the former Xeneize soccer player’s lawyers, which forced the sentencing to be delayed for at least 48 hours, which would be rescheduled for next Wednesday, April 3, after Easter.

Martínez, accused by the former Press Manager of the women’s team Florencia Marcó for having touched her tail and harassed her on repeated occasions during 2022, spoke as she left the courts, in the company of her lawyer Ángel Romero, and stressed that she was “psychologically destroyed”.

“With a bomb like that you don’t know where to hold on, it destroys you psychologically. What destroys you most is seeing your family suffer, seeing your children cry, seeing your parents over 78 years old explain what you are accused of and having to explain to them. That is why we are at the disposal of Justice.”stated Martínez, in statements to the A24 channel.

Regarding Marcó’s complaint, he explained: “We had a very distant relationship, we crossed paths in training. From the first day the four of us worked together, with the goalkeeper coach, the physical trainer, field assistant and me. We arrived on time. for breakfast, I don’t know when I thought I was acting that way. I couldn’t tell you the reason for the complaint. I simply dedicated myself to working, to doing my job responsibly every day, and seeking many goals that would help us. we had plotted. Here we are to prove my innocence“.

“I think that what they have declared was resounding. Of 15 witnesses, 9 were women and all of them declared that he was an excellent coach, that he had taught them a lot and that I never disrespected anyone. Afterwards, what Miss Marcó thinks of the testimonies is not my responsibility,” he added about the development of the trial, last Friday when the initial day took place.

Furthermore, Martínez was encouraged to leave a message for Florencia Marcó, at which point she was moved almost to tears: “I would tell her that surely in a little corner of her heart, she is sorry.. I have nothing against her, I forgave her from the first moment and I will continue to forgive her. “I believe a lot in God, I am sure of my innocence and I continue working for that.”

This Monday, a sentence was scheduled to be handed down in the trial against Jorge Martínez, former soccer player and coach of the Boca Juniors women’s team, for the accusation of sexual abuse against Florencia Marcó, who was the team’s press officer. However, a legal device caused the reading of the verdict to be postponed, because the former defender’s lawyer, Ángel Romero, presented a challenge against Judge Sergio Paduczak for alleged irregularities in the process.

The hearing had been called at 9:30 this Monday on the 7th floor, the room of the Oral Court number 22 of Comodoro Py, but to the surprise of all those who came to hear the verdict, it was finally postponed.

Martínez’s defense attorney made the presentation on Sunday, when it is usually something that is raised directly in hearings.

Romero argued that Judge Paduczak “deviated from his role by asking countless induced questions to the witnesses” during Friday’s round, “something that is prohibited by the Criminal Procedure Code” which establishes that the magistrate is prohibited from asking questions.

According to Romero, the challenged judge “led the witnesses with their questions, so that they could affirm that there was physical contact, when 13 of the 15 witnesses stated that they were not present or that they did not see such contact.”

In that sense, the lawyer specified that “the only witness who was in a position to affirm or reject the contact or ‘touching’ ruled out such a situation, which would ruin the entire investigation since it proves that the reported event never existed.”

And he noted that “the judge seemed very insistent on asking and cross-examining the witnesses, if it was possible that he had ‘touched’ any part of the complainant.”

Romero, on the other hand, does not rule out the existence of “a political link in the false complaint made to DT Martínez.”

Now the judge will have 48 hours to decide whether or not to accept the challenge. In case of rejection, the trial would continue on April 3, after Holy Week and holidays for tourist purposes.