The masters welcome to be abused by Serial Angelo Cabrera is shameful

We try to be honest, Cecilia Torres Mana, Silva Rivadero and Micaela Teresa Escudero are seriously disappointed by the professional golf. They deserve better and the game should be ashamed.

Torres was Cabrera’s girlfriend and it was the violence that led her to finally bring her to her first two -year phrase in July 2021. Torres detailed the way in which Cabrera, “physically, psychologically and abused me sexually” and how it made me sleep so violently “.

“I can’t be completely free or calm, knowing what kind of person it is and the threats he made”

Cecilia Torres Mana, victim of Cabrera

At that moment he was simply praying to emerge with his life intact. Torres somehow torn the courage to run and go to the police – “Angelo always said that if I had reported him, he would have damaged his career and would have told me about all his political contacts” – and he talked about his joy when he had been imprisoned.

“But I’m still afraid,” he added, explaining how his brother was robbed at his house when he refused to inform Cabrera and his people on where he was. “I can’t be completely free or calm, knowing what kind of person it is and the threats he did. I think my family and I are still at risk.”

The following year, Cabrera was sentenced to two more years and four months – to run simultaneously – for having attacked Micaela Escudero, who went on after the complaints of Torres. A disgusting and very obvious theme has become clear. In 2016, his ex -wife, Silva Rivadero, accused Cabrera of physical assault.

Initially it survived that investigation, but when the net has closed she chose to avoid justice by eliminating its homeland. The twice greater winner was finally captured in Rio de Janeiro in 2020. The Brazilian authorities were adequate had no intention of returning to Argentina, despite being the subject of an Interpol mandate for his arrest.

Yet since the end of 2023, Cabrera has been free and able to report the terrible conditions in which it was contained for the first five months in a prison of Cordoba nicknamed “The Prison of Hell”. From Hell to Golf Paradise, huh? From a bed of concrete to the locker room of the samples? It is here that repenting can bring you if you have the right CV, as he pointed out on his own.

“I’m repentant and embarrassed,” said Cabrera Digest from golf. “I made serious mistakes. I refused to listen to anyone and I did what I wanted, as I wanted and when I wanted. I ask for forgiveness to Micaela. I ask Cecilia for forgiveness. They had the misfortune of crossing paths with me when I was the worst. I was not the devil, but I did bad things.”

Cabrera had a hard childhood – he was so poor that he had no shoes and they call him “el pato” because he still walks like a duck – and he said sorry. So let him go out there in front of millions and, next to the great veterans like Bernhard Langer and Fred Couples, make some birds and remind us of his glories of the past. What is the problem?

The answer is that his victims could and almost certainly face further pain and trauma because of their particular memories of Cabrera. And it should not be the main concern here and in the current debate on the rehabilitation of sportsmen – yes, are they always men – from serious crimes against women in the eyes of the public?

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You can talk about the second possibilities, of the responsibilities such as role models, of the wisdom of the sports authorities that trace moral lines-and, however, apparently every point raised in this multilateral topic continues to ignore the rights of the innocent. Ask yourself that it is more important: the right of Cabrera, at 55, to resume the fulfillment of a sporting dream; Or the rights of Torres, Escudero and Rivadero to go on with their lives and not feel persecuted by the image of their attacker and testify to him that was done by a sort of return hero?

If you were condemned for such crimes, do you think your employers would act in such a generous way? Do you also think you can travel in the United States? It is a point collected by Lisa Longstaff, by women against rape.

“Violence against women and girls is a global pandemic: every 10 minutes a woman is killed by her partner or a family member,” he said. “The public should boycott Angel Cabrera and companies that promote him. There are many sportsmen, entertainers, politicians, businessmen, policemen, soldier who think they are above the law because money and status protect them.

“Is it repugnant to promote men who sexually abuse their power over women. And how could he enter the United States with a criminal conviction?”

Indeed. The doors of the privilege have been reopened comfortably and it would be nice, but perhaps naive, believe that the Masters will not feate you all regardless.

London Telegraph