Convicted rapist Kingsley Sarfo, 24, could have been stopped. Despite strong warning signals to the club, teammates and agent, the football star continued to hit and sexually exploit underage girls, reveals TV4's Cold Facts. - One should beware of trying to solve things internally. Police are to report, says prosecutor Rikard Darell.

In 2016, several players noticed a young girl at Sirius training. - There was a young girl at the stand and they wondered: "Who really came with her," defender Niklas Busch Thor told Kalla Facts.

The Uppsala team's players quickly realized that she was familiar with midfielder Kingsley Sarfo. - We went to Scandic and ate lunch after the training and then this girl came there.

I told Kingsley that: "She looks a little young." I pointed it out to him, says goalkeeper Benny Lekström.

In June 2018, midfielder Kingsley Sarfo was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for rape against children and deportation from Sweden for ten years.

Early warning signals According to a review made by TV4's Cold Facts, it appears that Sarfo's former club Sirius received signals early on that something was not right.

The mother of the girl who showed up as a spectator at Sirius training heard from the club's management because she discovered that her 12-year-old daughter had contact with Sarfo via social media and that the football star paid train tickets so she could visit him in Uppsala.

Former Siri trainers Kim Bergstrand and Thomas Lagerlöf were commissioned to talk to Sarfo. - According to Kingsley's description for our coaches, it was the girl who was very contrite and stalked him, says Sirius chairman Ove Sjöblom. - Based on that, they (the coaches) have told us about contact with underage girls and that he should stay away from it. That this contact would be interrupted immediately - and Sarfo said he would, "Sjöblom says.

Some time later, Kingsley Sarfo, who was then 21, made contact with another young girl. He traveled and met the then 14-year-old girl in Malmö on two occasions, 2016 and 2017, and used her sexually both times.

Acquired by Malmö FF Three weeks after the second visit to the girl in Malmö, the midfielder was acquired by Malmö FF for SEK 13 million.

A short time later, police arrested 24-year-old Kingsley Sarfo for rape. Cold Facts wonders why Sirius didn't do more when the warning signals were there early. 

We think we did it through the conversation that Kim Bergstrand and Thomas Lagerlöf had with the player.

We took it seriously. We brought it up with Kingsley and explained what was going on and asked him to immediately discontinue contact, says chairman Ove Sjöblom.

The police investigation into Sarfo also shows that the football player had contact with a third girl, a 12-year-old whom he chatted with, and asked if she wanted to have sex with him.

According to Kalla Facts, Sarfo's former agent, Niklas Strand, also states that he told the player that it is a serious crime to have sex with underage girls.

Nevertheless, the football star was not stopped from contacting very young girls. - You have to be careful about trying to solve things internally.

Police are to report things, Prosecutor Rikard Darell tells Kalla facts. - The responsibility rests pretty heavily on everyone around, of course most on him who commits the abuse, says criminologist Nina Rung to Kalla Facts.

New evidence is invoked "Had the club manager, teammates, coach - any of those who actually could - done something, it would probably have contributed to him not being able to rape the 14-year-old," says Rung.

The verdict against Sarfo was upheld in court, but the preliminary investigation has now been reopened by the prosecutor since Sarfo and his lawyer Thomas Bodström cited a birth certificate from the African country where the raped girl was born.

The document, they say, shows that the girl is one year older and if she was 15 at the time of the crime, Kingsley Sarfo cannot be convicted of child rape.