2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
What started as a parental relationship ended in hell. Fernando Sierra, coach of the Club Defensor Maldonado in Uruguay, abducted and murdered Felipe Romero, 10, and later committed suicide.
The friendship began when Sierra trained little Felipe in the baby division of Uruguayan soccer. The affection became very strong, even though Sierra only exercised the boy for a short time.
The coach managed to befriend the family to the degree that Felipe called him dad. “He wore it and brought it from practice, from games, walked with him everywhere, treated him as if he were a son and Felipe treated him as if he were his father. Papa told him more than once,” Miryam Sosa, leader of the Defensor Maldonado Club in charge of the baby soccer division, told BBC Mundo.
The boy was the son of former soccer player Luis Romero, who apparently did not spend much time with the child. Sierra trained with Felipe, looked for him at his school and even went on vacation together to Brazil with the consent of the little boy's mother, Alexandra Pérez, and his father.
Returning from the holidays, the minor's psychologist perceived strange behaviors and proposed to the mother that the child stop seeing Sierra, María del Carmen Romero, Felipe's aunt, told the BBC, who also clarified that the minor's father authorized the trip. because the whole family would go.
After his meeting with the psychologist, Felipe's mother spoke with Sierra last Tuesday and made it very clear that from that day on, he would not be alone with the child. "If I can't see Felipe anymore, he will kill me," the coach replied to the mother.
After the meeting, Sierra apparently planned how to see the little boy. According to the Uruguayan newspaper El País, the coach rented a car for twenty days and bought some tranquilizers. He picked up Felipe at his school, as he had done on previous occasions, and got rid of his phone on the road.
The search for the boy ended last Friday when his body was found next to Sierra's in a creek about 150 kilometers from Montevideo. The coach had the boy in his arms, was not wearing shoes, and a 22-caliber gun was in place. According to the police chief of the town of Lavalleja, Eduardo Martínez, Sierra shot the boy and later took his life.
The autopsy results are expected next week.
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