Lagos State Police Command has arrested a
football club manager, Frank Darlington, for allegedly engaging in same sex
with three of his teenage players in the Agege area of the state.
According to dailypost.ng, it was gathered that Darlington, the
manager of Soccer Warriors Football Academy, Pen Cinema, was arrested last
Thursday by the Elere Police Division, after one of the victims reported him to
the police.
Darlington, a native of Imo State, allegedly took three
footballers to his house on separate occasions after training sessions, and sodomised
them.
The
police said the suspect allegedly penetrated the victims’ anuses, and would be
charged for sodomy.
The suspect, told newsmen that he started to rape his players in
February 2015.
He added that he committed the act to derive pleasure.
“I have a female
daughter, and she is three years old. I manage the Soccer Warriors Football
Academy in the Pen Cinema, Agege area. It was in February 2015 that the rape
started. I usually had sex with my boys just to play with them. It was romance.
We had fun together. The last one I did was in July 2016, knowing that it could
get me into trouble.
“I
slept with only three of my footballers. There was one of my boys that had not
been coming for training since last week. When I asked after him, I was told
that he was sick. I did not know that he had reported to his mother and she had
told the police.
“I do not know what moved me to be sleeping with them. I have
been coaching for about 12 years. My wife stays in the South-East. She left me
in March 2016. The sex with the boys was not for any ritual. I only derived fun
from it.
“I
knew it was a crime and that was why I stopped this act since July. I pledged
not to go back into this.” He said.
One of the victims, Kehinde (pseudonym), told Punch that
Darlington threatened him that he (Kenny) would die if he told anyone about the
sodomy.
The 18-year-old said he was forced to tell his mother when
Darlington made it a habit.
He said, “He always had sex with me and with most of us. He
started last year. The first time he approached me was after a training
session. We were on the football pitch and he said my performance was bad and I
should meet him at home for a discussion.
“When I went, he and two boys were at home. His wife did not
stay with him. He sent the two boys on an errand and asked me to come into his
room. He then instructed me to remove my trousers, and he molested me.
“He did not use any protection. He did not give me any money,
but he threatened that I would die if I told anyone. I cannot count how many
times he had done this to me. I told my mother when I was tired of his abuse.
My mother reported him at the police station.”
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, who
paraded the club manager, said the suspect would be charged to court at the end
of investigation.
“There is no place for criminals to hide in the state. We enjoin
the residents of Lagos to report suspicious movements and persons to the
police,” he added.
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