Football coach charged with child abuse suspended for covida

The defendant was arrested in December 2019 after his then wife accidentally discovered the paedophile material on one of her husband's USB devices. The Public Prosecutor's Office is asking for sentences amounting to 50 years' imprisonment, as Levante and EMV advanced last summer, for the trainer of the category of children and military by profession.

The investigators of the National Police Group found more than 50,000 photographs and videos of child pornography, including content he himself had produced, recognizing children in his environment, including family members, who he abused while asleep or drugged, including carnal intercourse with three of his victims.

The prosecution requests him to be sentenced to 50 and a half years' imprisonment for three continuing crimes of sexual abuse of a person under the age of 16, five for the production of pornographic material with children and one for the possession of child pornography.

His wife uncovered the case after the casual discovery of the material on a USB.

The facts, which this newspaper reported exclusively, were uncovered on Christmas eve 2019 when the defendant's wife, coach of a children's football team in l'Horta, in which she trained children between the ages of ten and fifteen, alerted the police to her home after accidentally finding images of explicit paedophile content by opening a pendrive in her husband's backpack on the computer.

The woman already suspected that something unusual was happening when she found child underwear among her husband's belongings weeks earlier. It was only the tip of the iceberg of his alleged depravity. To record the finding in case he tried to eliminate the evidence, the woman recorded with her cell phone the moment she opened her husband's backpack, found children's underwear and a bottle of gum with six storage devices, where police have subsequently located more than 50,000 paedophile files after their dump.

The key to the case will be the manner in which the main evidence of prosecution was obtained against the accused. His defence has raised the nullity of such evidence, although the Provincial High Court of Valencia refused to declare the discovery of USB devices where he stored the pornographic material null and void.

None of the victims had wanted to bring charges against the trainer, so if the evidence was finally declared null and void, the absence of evidence against the alleged paedophile could lead to his possible acquittal.

However, the Department of Public Prosecutions supports the woman's action in opening her husband's flash drive, as her action does not respond to an indication from the police or intended to violate her privacy-there is a separate case against her for the disclosure of secrets-but was "strictly personal, focused on protecting her son from extremely serious behaviour by her husband affecting minors".