Buenos Aires, April 7 (NA) -- Ten women, aged between 25 and 30, were charged with the alleged abuse of a teenager who was 16 years old at the time of the incident. She, along with five teammates, was subjected to lewd practices during the "baptism" for admission to the first division of the German Hockey Club in Mendoza. According to Argentine News Agency, the accusation was made three years ago, in 2023. However, "the prosecutor's office understood that the facts were aberrant, but did not constitute a crime," as indicated by lawyer Lucas Lecour, who added: "he considered it so because there was no direct physical contact between the perpetrators and the victim." Nevertheless, the same lawyer explained this afternoon that "the judge ordered that the case be unarchived and reactivated, taking into account the age difference between the victim and the perpetrators, as well as the fact of belonging." The victim's harrowing account allows any bureaucracy to be set aside: "Upon entering, they forced us to take off our bras, they gave us a paper that minimally covered us, and they covered our eyes with feminine wipes. They told us to get on all fours, they gave us a dog bone, told us to bark like dogs, and then we went to the bathroom." At that moment, the teenager and her teammates just wanted to belong to the top division team after years of athletic effort, but they found themselves in a completely different scenario: "They poured mixtures on us, they touched me, at one point they told me to shout 'goal'." "I was blindfolded, I didn't know what I was doing, and they forcefully inserted a sausage into my underwear, then a blood sausage between my underwear and my leggings, I didn't know what it was and they wouldn't let me take it off. In between, they made inappropriate and sexualized comments about my coach and me," continued the victim. She went on to detail: "At that moment, I was 16 years old. The 10 women are still part of the club." "The videos went viral within the club's nucleus, but were eventually deleted, so we could not access them to use them as evidence in the case," the lawyer concluded. The psychological evaluation and the testimony given in the Gesell chamber confirmed that the events she described were true." Likewise, the lawyer shed light on a scene that seemed blocked for the victim, a game that gave closure to the "baptism": "The Twister game, they made them play almost naked, and what caused them the most damage was that they had to perform it with contact between the girls who were being welcomed, in positions with a clear sexual connotation." "They had made them take off their tops and put leaves or paper to cover their nipples. Due to the amount of liquid that had been thrown on them, many were already with their torsos exposed. That, added to the fact that they were being filmed, caused them extra suffering that they had not imagined when thinking about their welcome to the club," he added. In another order of things, he pointed to the desire to belong to that social circle: "Only my client is in the complaint, and this is related to a belonging issue because the others knew that bringing this type of complaint forward meant leaving the club and the sport they love so much." "It was very difficult for the prosecutor's office to investigate this seriously, and I don't think they will call the other players to see if there were other cases. The evidence was already there. This doesn't just happen in hockey, but in many sports, and it serves to start discussing these issues. I don't think it was just with me, but something that had happened before," he concluded. The lawyer, for his part, emphasized: "Initially, the prosecutor's office intended to archive the case."
