A coach accused of sexual harassment has now left Serbian esports organisation Rising Hope, it’s been confirmed.
Earlier in the week, Rising Hope’s all-female Valorant team and head coach Jehiel quit after a sexual harassment claim was raised regarding another coach, named Simons.
In a Twitlonger statement, Jehiel detailed how Simons would regularly threaten to reveal his genitals despite frequent requests not to.
“It may be an internal joke to them or something but since I am a coach of female players, I found it inappropriate,” Jehiel said. “So I called him out telling him that it wasn’t a good joke and that he should refrain from doing that as it was not funny.”
It is claimed Simons did show his genitals on a Discord video call alongside the team training, at which point Jehiel and the all-female team unanimously voted to leave Rising Hope.
“After the scrim, the team and I held a meeting and reviewed the scrim footage, and found that Simons has been drinking with alcohol visible on Discord cam while acting inappropriately multiple times throughout the scrim, not just the one time that my players caught him,” said Jehiel.