A serious complaint about gender violence was published on social media by Marisol Peña Cobas, who revealed that her niece was assaulted in Camagüey.
According to the account published this Tuesday on Facebook, the assailant, who was identified as the ex-partner of the victim's niece, left the young woman injured, while the police, instead of taking action, decided to close the case without taking any measures against the attacker.
"That's how battered the woman abuser left my niece," wrote Peña Cobas, noting that the head of the first unit in Camagüey expelled his niece, her son, and his sister from the police station, where they had taken refuge, informing them that the case had been closed.
Peña expressed her outrage not only at the police's inaction but also by pointing out that the Cuban regime is complicit in the lack of protection in cases of femicide occurring in the country, arguing that this lack of response is why so many women are murdered by their partners.
In a previous post, Peña shared a video in which his niece explained that her attacker had been captured; however, she reported that the police only imposed a fine of 500 pesos and a restraining order, which she was forced to sign.
She emphasized that she did not agree with that measure, as she did not feel protected from the aggressor, who would only go to prison if she were to stab a member of her family.
Furthermore, she reported that the police, unable to protect the young woman in her home, decided to keep her and her son in the PNR unit as a safety measure, where they lived under inhumane conditions before being expelled after the case was closed: "They haven't gone to look for the aggressor."
In another video, Peña explained that his niece's ex-partner assaulted her with a knife and shared the regime's inaction in capturing the attacker.
This incident highlights the worrying situation of gender violence in Cuba and the lack of effective measures by the authorities in response to these cases.
In August, feminist platforms raised the count of femicides for the year to 34 after confirming the deaths of Saimy Hernández in the province of Mayabeque and Linda Nay Flores Vargas, whose body was found in a landfill in Havana.
Saimy Hernández, approximately 40 years old and a mother of several children, was killed by her partner on August 13 in a public space in the town of Güines, Mayabeque.
In the case of Linda Nay Flores Vargas, a 34-year-old woman, her body was discovered in a landfill in Havana on July 12th.
However, the number will rise even more as just a few days ago, the young Cuban Arianni Céspedes (January 7, 1989) was murdered in her home in the Alejo neighborhood, in the town of Aguacate, Palma Soriano municipality, Santiago de Cuba.
Sources close to the victim have informed CiberCuba that she was stabbed at her home by her ex-partner.
Recently, the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) had to acknowledge that nearly 10,000 families and more than 16,000 women and girls are living in situations of violence in the country.
In statements to the official newspaper Granma, Teresa Amarelle Boué, the general secretary of the FMC, made this assertion while identifying 9,579 families in that situation and mentioned that they are seeking to strengthen the mechanisms for case detection and support.
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