The Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Valencia today requested the opening of oral and proposed a sentence of two years in prison and the payment of compensation of six thousand euros for the former president of Valencia and former delegate of the Spanish team Pedro Cortes for possible sexual abuse of a minor between the ages of sixteen and eighteen. The former leader has always denied the accusations.
Is about a youth squad from the Mestalla club school that he signed a representation agreement with the company of Cortés’s son, which is why the former leader met and established a relationship of trust with the young player and his family, which was the one who reported the case.
The indictment of the Prosecutor’s Office maintains that in November 2020, Cortés invited the young player, who was between 16 and 18 years old at the time, and his family to eat at a well-known restaurant in Valencia. According to the testimony of the young man already during the meal, Cortés would have made the following comment: “I’m going to eat you whole.”
Finished the meal, the player’s family left and Cortés He would have offered to take the young man to the sports city of Paterna, where he resided. According to the prosecution “Guided by his libidinal spirit (…) He placed his right hand on the minor’s left thigh, beginning to massage him in a circular motion, moving his hand to the genital area, placing it on his penis ”.
- According to the account that the Public Prosecutor considers as good the minor he took away the hand of Cortés, who told him at that time that “there is only one life and you have to enjoy it.”