❘ Printed: 2024-10-11T10:30:50
Tremendous Smash Bros professional Juan Pablo ‘Skyjay’ Lozada has responded to allegations of getting sexual relations with a minor, denying any wrongdoing after accusations began showing on-line.
On October 10, a social media submit claimed that Skyjay had admitted to having sexual relations with a minor.
“This man (SKYJAY) personally informed me that when he was 18 he had ‘sexual relations’ with a 14-year-old GIRL,” the submit mentioned. “And after I informed him that that was tremendous incorrect, he answered ‘It’s simply that, why do they do it like that?’
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“He informed it so naturally and with out pondering that that might be incorrect.”
Hours later, Skyjay launched a prolonged assertion on his personal social media accounts, denying the allegations completely.
(Word: the next has been translated from Spanish)
“I’m conscious of every part that’s taking place and being mentioned about me, I needed to remain as distant as attainable since I don’t assist having completed what the accusations are commenting on, which even level to folks with whom I’ve a relationship as a girlfriend (to whom it could concern) and friendship, accusations that make them ‘victims.’
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“The primary accusation that’s circulating publicly at this second is about whether or not I interacted sexually with a minor at 18 years previous. It ought to be famous that I entered the group in 2019 after I was round 20-21 years previous, the remark is positioned fairly a very long time earlier than I used to be even locally.”
He continued: “Now being the necessary level, I don’t declare to have had sexual relations with minors, neither within the accusation nor at every other level in my life. As an additional truth, at the moment my girlfriend is even older than me.
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“Clearly the difficulty exists locally, however I’m not the one to level the finger at. I perceive that my relationship could look dangerous as a result of succession of occasions, however it’s not about heroes or villains, dangerous or good, ultimately the choice ought to be stored between the folks concerned.
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“I’m not somebody who has completed issues relating to statutory rape.”
He additionally spoke in regards to the state of affairs on stream, reiterating his innocence.
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Regardless of Skyjay’s denial, esports crew Cosmic Hive introduced shortly after the accusations turned public that he could be “excluded from any future team-related actions each on-line and in individual” in addition to from the subsequent Mexico nationwide rating.
They added, in a response to a fan: “Now we have acquired further circumstances to these described within the tweet. It’s not as much as us to launch what victims have shared in confidence.”
As Skyjay identified in his assertion, the Smash scene does have a historical past of those controversies.
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In February 2024, Niko responded to accusations of getting indecent photographs of a minor on his cellphone. In 2019, former world primary Elliot ‘Ally’ Barroza-Oyarce admitted to having a relationship with a 16-year-old, regardless of being 27 on the time.
In 2020 Gonzalo ‘Zer0’ Barrios confessed to having had been “inappropriate with underage women. Two years later, in September 2022, his lawsuit surrounding the state of affairs had totally concluded and he returned.
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