May 4 – FIFA’s Ethics Committee has banned another former employee of the Haitian Football Association (FHF) for 10 years as part of its investigation into multiple allegations of sexual abuse of female players in the Caribbean nation.
This time the axe has fallen on Under-20 women’s team supervisor Nella Joseph who was found guilty of failing to protect the physical and mental integrity of various female players under her authority and “by actively coercing and threatening them into engaging in sexual relationships” with former Haitian football association president Yves Jean-Bart (pictured).
Jean-Bart was banned for life in November after FIFA found him guilty of sexually harassing and abusing multiple female players, including minors. He denied the allegations.
The Ethics Committee’s adjudicatory chamber found Joseph “had breached art. 23 (Protection of physical and mental integrity) of the FIFA Code of Ethics and sanctioned her with a ban from all football-related activities … for a duration of 10 years,” FIFA said in its statement.
Joseph was also fined 20,000 Swiss francs ($21,880).
Last week, FIFA banned assistant coach Yvette Félix for five years, also for failing to protect the physical and mental integrity of female players, and fined her $10,913 for not protecting players from being sexually assaulted.
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