Written in SPORTS he 14/10/2024 · 18:27 hs
EFE.- Venezuelan judoka and Paralympic medalist Marcos José Falcón Tovar, 42, has been accused by the Public Ministry (MP, Prosecutor’s Office) of sexual abuse against three underage athletes, whom he “kissed and touched their legs during training” in a town in the state of Miranda, north of Caracas, the institution reported.
Falcón Tovar, 42 years old, won bronze medal in judo in London 2012. According to an official note, The victims, aged 15 to 17, They reported the subject, their judo teacher, on October 1 to a local police headquarters, where they assured that “the aggressor told them that, in order to move up” in the discipline, “they had to spend the night with him at his residence.”
That same day, The officials detained the athlete, who was later charged by the crimes of “sexual abuse without penetration and sexual harassment”, Therefore, a court ordered his arrest at the police headquarters in Miranda.
Earlier this month, the attorney general, Tarek William Saab, inaugurated a prosecutor’s office specialized in crimes of sexual abuse of children and adolescents, attached to the General Directorate for the Protection of Family and Women, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) in the Caribbean country.
For the UN agency, the establishment of this office “is significant because it is the first time” that an instance of the Public Ministry “will be dedicated exclusively to the protection of children against this type of transgressions”.
In Venezuela, 278 cases of sexual violations were registered against minors from March 1 to the end of July of this year, according to the Network for the Human Rights of Children and Adolescents (Redhnna).
