The former striker of FC Barcelona, Samuel Eto’o is in the eye of the hurricane after this Monday it was revealed in a report by the newspaper El Mundo that he refuses to cancel the monthly support for Erika Eto’o do Rosario, declared last February as the legal daughter of the former player.
Regardless of the obligation imposed by law, Eto’o has refused to comply with his duties as a father, which include assisting the young woman and her mother with money and those who already have announced to start a legal battle to obtain 1,400 euros per month ($1,508 dollars) .
Despite the fact that Erika and her mother had previously gained legal recognition as the Cameroonian’s daughter and a judge ruled that they were obligated to pay monthly maintenance contributions, Eto’o has refused to comply with the agreement.
According to El Mundo, since the legal battle for recognition a little over two years ago, the money has never arrived and the pending amount would amount to 40, euros ($43,110 dollars).
The mother’s annoyance is such that she said that when the girl was three years old she had a surgical intervention to remove one of her kidneys and when she needed to contact Eto’o through a friend to looking for his medical history and knowing if there was a history, he found that for the former player “they were like dead”.
“The doctors needed to know the medical history of the parents, to find out if there was a history. She was three and a half years old. I contacted a mutual friend and he replied that he preferred not to insist. ‘Look, Dee Dee, I’ve already told him and the last time he answered me “as if the mother and the child die for me, leave me alone”’. I was absolutely broken”, said Adileusa ‘Dee Dee’ do Rosario, the mother.
This is not the first complaint that Samuel Eto’o receives for paternity issues and that he jumps to court. In 2004, a court in Mallorca ruled in favor of a woman named Anna Barranca who petitioned the court for Eto’o to be recognized as the father of her daughter Annie de ella .
Despite the fact that the court ruled in favor of Barranca and the former FC Barcelona player was sentenced to pay 10, per month for alimony, in 2019 and 2020 received new demands for payment in arrears of pending child support.