Ronaldo on rape allegations: Cristiano Ronaldo broke his silence over accusation of sexual assault by a 34-year woman from United States, Kathryn Mayorga.
Cristiano Ronaldo completed a lucrative transfer from Real Madrid to Juventus earlier this summer. Since then, the Portugal captain has been in the news for various reasons mostly pertinent to football.
It has been reported in the last few days that an American lady named Kathryn Mayorga has filed a rape case against the former Real Madrid winger claiming that she was sexually assaulted by her in 2009 at Las Vegas.
On Wednesday night, Mayorga and her lawyers are expected to hold a public conference to explain the accusations.
However, Cristiano Ronaldo has pledged innocence on his part on all of his major social media handles. The 33 year old claimed that rape was an ‘abominable’ crime and Kathryn Mayorga was only seeking to get public attention.
Ronaldo posted on his Twitter account: “I firmly deny the accusations being issued against me. Rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything that I am and believe in.
I firmly deny the accusations being issued against me. Rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything that I am and believe in. Keen as I may be to clear my name, I refuse to feed the media spectacle created by people seeking to promote themselves at my expense.
— Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano) October 3, 2018
“Keen as I may be to clear my name, I refuse to feed the media spectacle created by people seeking to promote themselves at my expense.
My clear conscious will thereby allow me to await with tranquillity the results of any and all investigations.
— Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano) October 3, 2018
“My clear conscious will thereby allow me to await with tranquillity the results of any and all investigations.”
This is a thread about the rape allegations vs. @Cristiano: About our research @derSpiegel, about Ronaldo’s reaction and a little insight into why the alleged victim Kathryn Mayorga speaks out about the case nine years later. This is the story btw: https://t.co/fwv26PhCSx 1/24
— Christoph Winterbach (@derWinterbach) September 30, 2018
The claims were originally published by a German magazine called Der Spiegel and Ronaldo was quick to label all of it as ‘fake news’ in a video that was posted on Instagram. Cristiano’s attorney Christian Schertz called the allegations as ‘manifestly illegal’ and labeled them as ‘one of the most serious violations in personal rights over years.’
It’s a questionnaire made by his lawyers. Ronaldo seems to partly confirm Mayorga’s version & stated that “she didn’t want to, but she made herself available.” In a later version of that questionnaire, these answers are gone. #CR7 is quoted saying it was consensual. 10/24 pic.twitter.com/1gsAcb5vZw
— Christoph Winterbach (@derWinterbach) September 30, 2018
Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Juventus training on Wednesday for the first time since the rape comments were passed against him but look unbothered by them. It remains to be seen how things will unfold but Ronaldo has said that he is innocent now and him providing a word on things was really important.
