Stefanía Lisa denounced in 2019 her former tennis coach, Ariel Gallero, for sexual abuse. Today’s 29-year-old woman from Río Cuarto made the accusation after almost 15 years of silence. The protagonist told in depth the details of all the experiences that she had to live.
The woman was encouraged after several years to denounce her former tennis coach and later revealed that in addition to raping her, he had repeatedly threatened to kill her. But she was not the only one, according to the investigation carried out by the whistleblower team, Gallero had two other complaints of sexual abuse against other girls.
It all started in 2006, when the victim of the act had only 13 years and he signed up to have tennis lessons, but after a few months he began to have problems with the club fee, due to the fact that his parents were close to separation and with various financial problems. “So going to play tennis was an escape, my way out of that universe of conflict that was my family “, expressed Stefanía.
When her father told the coach that his daughter would not be able to continue with tennis lessons because she could not pay for them, Gallero offered to teach her at no cost, which surprised both of them and they finally decided to accept it. “My dad took his word for it and agreed, because he knew about the love I had for tennis and the conditions I had “revealed the young woman.
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But at that moment Stefanía’s nightmare began: “He was driving me home in his car, took a detour and stopped at a roundabout. There he pounced on my seat and kissed me. He disgusted me, I always told him that he disgusted me. I felt that he was an old man to me, but he only said that he loved me and that I was everything to him “.
After that, the victim said that everything increased as the days went by, until a trip to Córdoba where Gallero sexually abused her for the first time. “The first two years he started abusing me, he reiterated it every day, Monday through Monday,” he related sadly.
As a result of these episodes, the young woman said that her sports performance was constantly falling. “I think I could have had a career, but I feel like this person (Gallero) cut my career short and ruined it for me”Stefi added.
In addition, he emphasized that he was constantly mistreated by his attacker with very strong insults and even hair pulling when he lost a game or had a bad attitude towards the rapist. “I lived in fear, every day I was terrified that he would do something to me or my family, because he had threatened to kill me and until one day he took a gun out of the glove compartment of the car, to show me “, he expressed.
Finally he closed: “I don’t want this to happen to anyone else, not to girls or boys. That’s why I want to go public, to banish monsters like this”.
The young woman gave an extensive interview to Puntal AM in the last hours where he tells in depth what he lived and what inspired him to dare to report this case.
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