He would have abused a minor by exploiting his role as a basketball coach in a well-known company in Rome .
For this a 55-year-old man was arrested on charges of aggravated and continued sexual assault . He is a repeat offender, in the past he had already been sentenced with an irrevocable sentence for aggravated sexual assault to the detriment of minors for similar acts committed again taking advantage of his role as a coach in another location in central Italy .
The investigations were triggered by the report of some collaborators of the sports club, suspicious of some ambiguous and inappropriate attitudes of the man towards young athletes, some even under 14 years of age .
Investigators have thus demonstrated that, in the evening hours, in recent years, some minors were invited by the coach to the rooms of the guesthouse where he stayed with the excuse of discussing game plans or performing therapeutic massages, even though he is not a physiotherapist. There the violence took place .
The coach also threatened the young athletes: " Anyone who refuses and denounces this will never play again ," he told them according to some witnesses.
In 2015, the 55-year-old was arrested in another region of central Italy for similar episodes which cost him a final two-year sentence.
He was blocked on his return from a trip from abroad and taken to the Regina Coeli prison by agents of the Flying Squad. The investigations continue to clarify any other episodes of violence, the one for which the man ended up in the cell sees a 14-year-old boy as the victim .
(Unioneonline/L)