Cuban woman says football star Maradona raped her as teenager, 'stole my childhood'

Cuban Mavys Alvarez, who testified against soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona in a case for alleged human trafficking, holds a picture of her sitting next to Maradona, his former agent Guillermo Coppola and an unidentified woman, after a news conference with foreign media, in Buenos Aires, Argentina November 22, 2021. REUTERS

Mavys Alvarez, a Cuban woman who had a relationship with late soccer star Diego Maradona two decades ago, told a news conference on Monday that the Argentine player had raped her when she was a teenager and "stolen her childhood."

Alvarez, now 37, gave testimony last week to an Argentine Ministry of Justice court that is investigating her allegations of trafficking against Maradona's former entourage, linked to events when she was 16.