A Cuban mother reports that her 15-year-old daughter has been raped by the deputy director of the Panchito Gómez Toro Polytechnic, in Holguín, where the minor attended, who has a diagnosed mental age of 10 years. The events date back to last September 7 when the man, using his authority, took the teenager, at 7:00 am, to a classroom located on the fourth floor of the school, closed the door with a padlock and had relations with her. non-consensual sexual acts since the girl wanted to leave there and he did not allow her to. However, the Cuban Justice understands that if he did not scream, it is not a rape but a minor crime.
The mother is desperate becausethe prosecutor Álvaro Wilfredo Sánchez Domínguez rejected the request for preventive detention for the accused,Miguel Antonio R.S., made by the victim's defense. She defends that we are facing a rape because seven days after the events, the doctors still detected the slightest signs of violence. It so happens that the teenager was still a young lady at the time the vice principal locked her in the classroom.
In the opinion of the girl's mother, the judicial process is "flawed" because the wife of the school's deputy director claims that he has a sister from State Security in Holguín. For her, the disappointment is capital because she assures that she belongs to "a generation where the protection of a minor was a priority, where we believed that justice existed and that in case of a bad turn of fate we were the victim of a certain crime, we could go to the State for protection. He was from that generation," he says in a letter sent toCyberCuba.
"Today I have realized that the difference between a sexual violation or not, between the ages of 12 and 18, depends on a single word: consent. Today I feel helpless, frustrated, but not defeated," she adds in her letter. .
It also hurts him that "the officials in whom we place trust to provide justice and control are full of prejudices, insensitivity and a rush to finish and increase a statistic." And at this point she tells of the unpleasant experience that her daughter experienced during the interrogation to which she was subjected by an official who did not understand that he was asking questions to a raped girl with a degree of disability. In the interview, as she explains, they forced her daughter to respond in monosyllables: yes or no.
The girl, who has been receiving psychological treatment since she was five years old, because she is shy, withdrawn and has "reduced mental capacity," changed overnight after the event. The mother began to notice that she was sleeping poorly and was talking in her sleep. She finally found out because the girl told a friend from the polytechnic and she told her mother who, in turn, told the base guide at her school. This teacher was the one who called her and informed her of what happened.
Once the center learned of what happened, it took immediate action with the deputy director. "Education acted quickly and well and has a very good and complete file. Those who are sleeping and corrupting the case are in the Police. Education investigated well and immediately decided to remove it from the system. On the administrative side I have no complaints," said the mother in conversation with CiberCuba.
She questions that her daughter, with a mental age of 10 years, can exonerate the school's vice principal from responsibility, only because the law understands that since there is no violence, force or intimidation, it is not rape, but a misdemeanor punishable by between 1 and 3 years in prison. The mother also questions that, taking into account her daughter's disability, it is understood that there could have been consent, taking into account that the deputy director is three times her age and maturity.
She understands that the law should take into account, as it does in countries like Spain, the circumstances in which the minor had sexual relations: locked up and unable to leave, on a fourth floor where screaming was not an option because she would not be heard. no one understands that it is a violation of the manual.
To all this we must add that after what happened and before the complaint was filed with the Police, the deputy director stopped paying attention to the girl, whom before abusing her he continually entertained her by giving her food and "chupas." As soon as she became aware of the case, the mother requested a transfer to the center and the minor is now studying at another school. To date she has not met her rapist again, but she is afraid that he will appear at any moment because the Cuban justice system decided that preventive detention is not necessary in this case.
This is not the first case of a Cuban mother who denounces the laxity of the Cuban Justice when trying rapists.In June 2021, CiberCuba published the case of a 13-year-old minor who suffered a group rapeAnd far from imprisoning the rapists, they released them and began a campaign to discredit the girl. Due to media pressure, the process was accelerated and the six rapists were sentenced to 21 years in prison.
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