Hugo Mallo was found guilty of sexual abuse committed on April 24, 2019 at the stadium of Spanishwhere he committed the said crime against the person who worked as a mascot for the parakeets team. Five years later and after the conviction, Carmen Comahas decided to come forward and break her silence. The woman who denounced Hugo Mallo for putting his hand under his suit and touching her breasts has spoken out in several media outlets and explained her version of what happened.
The victim says that right after the abuse, “I made it very clear that I wanted to report it and I did it the next day. I felt anger, disgust. Touching the chest might seem like a jokea joke that goes unpunished but I told myself that it was not possible. He had a bad time, but he is happy that justice has been done: “I have been under pressure for five years, shame and fear that my identity will be known because I am an anonymous person. “I am satisfied because finally the judge has proven that what happened to me is true… Justice has been done,” she said in Wave Zero.
“I know the video was fundamental for the defense. Even in front of 20,000 people and in front of the cameras, people doubted what had happened,” he adds. And he tells how it all happened: “I was shocked, I tried to push him away and I shouted ‘bastard’, but nobody listened to me. because I was under the costume.” Carme explains that “I remained silent for five years with the media behind me to make me talk and I did not do it out of respect for myself and for the judicial process but now that the sentence is known, I wonder.” Why must I remain silent? Why do I have to hide? “I did nothing wrong.”
Hugo Mallo, sentenced
“In a way, it comforts me, This makes me believe that justice has meaning and it helped me to someone anonymous, who did not have to spend these four years, but I am satisfied because I defended myself with my tools. I am satisfied. It was clearly stated in the decision. That is what I reported. At that moment, I was shocked, I tried to push him away and I shouted “bastard”, but nobody heard me because I was under the costume and in a stadium. It left me absolutely shocked. “We did not know each other at all,” he says. Facing the chain.
Carmen Coma She also reveals her problems and acknowledges that no one in Hugo Mallo’s entourage, nor the player himself, contacted her: “After a year and a half, the Cornellá court filed the case. We appealed and the case was reopened. It really happened and I am a normal person who does something as a hobby; in life I thought I would find myself in this situation. There was nothing about the environment. I thought about it and talked about it and if I had had it at the beginning, maybe I would have reconsidered. But I made my decision very quickly, the next day. I wrote an email rejecting Celta and Espanyol, who offered me his help from minute zero, both personal and legal.
