The Prosecutor’s Office of Jalisco (Mexico), confirmed Thursday that Omar Bravo, World Cup player in Germany-2006, has two more investigation files, prior to the complaint of alleged sexual abuse of a minor for which he was arrested last Saturday.
“There are antecedents, apparently of two previous files that are on file. We are reviewing them to give you precise information, but the one that is open and current is only one,” explained Lidia Canales Rodríguez, an official of the Specialized Investigation Prosecutor’s Office for Women, Girls, Adolescents, Gender and Family of Jalisco.
The public servant added that each of the previous investigation files belong to different victims and that “they need to review them” to know if they could be aggravating factors in their current case.
Bravo, 44, was captured on Saturday in an operation in downtown Zapopan following a tip-off.
“For his alleged responsibility in the crime of aggravated child sexual abuse, elements of the investigative police attached to the Deputy Prosecutor’s Office in specialized investigation in attention to women, children and adolescents, gender and family reason, managed to capture a man, identified as Omar ‘N’,” the prosecutor’s office said in a press release.
According to investigations, the retired striker had abused a teenage girl on several occasions in recent months and it is presumed that he had previously committed similar acts.
Bravo, a member of Mexico’s Gold Cup-winning national team in 2003 and 2009, remains in custody pending criminal proceedings.
The former striker is considered one of the most important figures of Chivas Guadalajara, one of Mexico’s two most popular teams and the all-time leading scorer with 160 goals.
In addition to playing for Chivas, the striker played for Deportivo La Coruña in Spain, Tigres UANL, Cruz Azul, Atlas and Leones Negros in Mexico. In the United States, reported Agencia EFE, he played for Sporting Kansas City, North Carolina and Phoenix Rising.
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