The vice president of charlottesville chess club (Joaquín Litzenberger) sexually abused his cousin and the daughter of a family friend around 2009–2010 in Argentina.

He forced his cousin to perform masturbation, oral sex, and later anal sex through threats. He was naked and threatened to tell the cousin’s parents that the cousin was forcing him, because the family always trusted Joaquín. The cousin complied; Joaquín would ejaculate and then stop because he had gotten what he wanted. When the cousin said he would tell his father because he did not like what was happening, Joaquín threatened to kill himself if the cousin told anyone; the cousin, not wanting to be blamed for Joaquín’s death, did not report it.

At first the abuse involved masturbation and oral sex, but it escalated over time to anal sex. On one occasion when the cousin refused, Joaquín urinated on the cousin’s socks and shoes. The abuse and threats lasted about one year. Joaquín also told his cousin that he had abused the daughter of a family friend while she slept in the house, touching her and forcing her to perform oral sex; the cousin did not report this because he did not want to make the situation worse for Joaquín.

In 2017–2018 Joaquín admitted the abuse in front of his cousin and the aunt. The cousin did not report it earlier because the statute of limitations in Argentina had passed. The cousin later disclosed the abuse to his therapist after Joaquín’s admission.