A Premier League club executive accused under caution in relation to a historical rape allegation is now facing two additional abuse claims, as reported by the BBC.
The prominent figure was questioned at a London police station in June after a crime report from nearly two years ago implicated him in an alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl.
The executive voluntarily went to a police station to refute the unrelated claims, which are not connected to his football position, and was not arrested.
The BBC has disclosed that in 2021, he was previously investigated for allegedly sexually abusing a different 15-year-old in the 1990s, but no further action was taken due to legislation stating that if the offense of “unlawful sexual intercourse” occurred between 1956 and 2004, and the alleged victim was a girl aged 13 to 15, she had to file a complaint within a year.
The report also indicated that the police are looking into allegations by a third woman that the man confined her in a room and attempted to coerce her into sexual activity.
This incident was alleged to have occurred during a job interview in the late 1990s when the woman was in her early 20s.
The woman, whose complaint led to the executive’s police questioning earlier this year, stated that she reported her alleged rape in the early 1990s, but had been too scared to proceed unless other women came forward.
She decided to revisit the authorities two years ago after witnessing the MeToo movement’s impact on taking victims of powerful men seriously.
She also mentioned reaching out to the Football Association and Premier League in July regarding her allegations.
“I became really concerned about young girls in the academies and female employees and players who might not be aware,” she said.
The BBC reported that it took the Premier League over two months to acknowledge her report to its safeguarding email address, claiming that the email had been lost in its inbox.
According to the report, the FA informed her that she would not be notified if any action was being taken against the executive, as the FA “does not typically comment publicly on individual safeguarding cases.”
With regard to their safeguarding policies, the FA mentioned that they are “regularly reviewed by the NSPCC’s Child Protection in Sport Unit.”
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