Football Club Manager Defiles Teenage Boys After Training

A 49-year-old football club manager identified as Frank Darlington has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly sodomising three of his teenage players in the Agege area of the state.

Reports stated that the suspect who is the manager of Soccer Warriors Football Academy, Pen Cinema, was arrested by the Elere Police Division after one of the teenage boys who could not continue with the molestation, reported his evil act to the security operatives.

It was gathered that Darlington a father and a divorcee allegedly took three footballers to his house after training sessions and penetrated the victims’ anuses.

The suspect while speaking with newsmen confessed to the crime, saying he started to rape his players in February 2015, adding that the act is to derive pleasure.

He said, “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 s3x 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 added.

One of the victims, “He always had s3x 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, said the suspect would be charged to court.