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Young mother and her baby missing in Mayarí, Holguín

The family has already filed a complaint with the police but nothing is known about the young woman.

Joven desaparecida y su bebé © Facebook/Tania Rodríguez
Missing young woman and her baby Photo © Facebook/Tania Rodríguez

A 17-year-old Cuban girl identified asRuth Natalia Benitez Rodriguez and her six-month-old baby have been missing for several days in the Holguín town of Guaro, in Mayarí.

The young woman's mother, Tania Rodríguez, stated that her daughter disappeared six days ago after going out with the baby to a town party and meeting the minor's father there.Ernesto Javier Espinoza Mañe, designated by the Cuban regime as a "supposed terrorist" and from whom the victim had recently separated.

In statements toCyberCuba A source who is in contact with the woman explained that the family has already filed a complaint with the Police but the whereabouts of the girl and her baby are still unknown.

"I am very worried that she is in the hands of my grandson's father. She does not know how to get out of it. She has been beaten by him, mistreated, it seems that she is afraid of him, 32 days after giving birth he hit her and threatened her. my youngest son with cutting off his head if he intervened," commented the mother.

She states that the incidents of abuse were reported to the police and that even though her daughter is a minor, the authorities did not pay attention to her complaints.

The day she disappeared, the young woman "was at the parties in Guaro, the little town where we live, and her ex-partner arrived." She had recently started a new relationship, the mother notes.

In a post on Facebook, Rodríguez explains that Espinoza Mañe told a friend that he had his daughter and child in "a place where no one was going to find them" until he could take them to Havana.

Espinoza Mañe is a DTI informant and was one of the men presented as "terrorists" in Mayarí by regime spokesperson Humberto López in an April 2021 program to defend the Cuban Government's Communication Law.

Recently, complaints aboutmissing women and femicides have increased in Cuba.

Currently, young Karildi Marín has been missing since December 14 in Havana, after going out to a party that was later canceled. The woman did not return home and her family is asking for help to locate her.

AlsoLali Paola Moliner, a three-year-old Cuban girl residing in the Bahía neighborhood, in the Habana del Este municipality, has remained missing since last Saturday at 10 p.m., when she was last seen with her mother, Teresa Moliner.

The mother and the minor were reported missing immediately, and the woman appeared lifeless early Tuesday morning on the coast of Havana del Este.

Some unofficial reports on networks suggest that the body of the girl's mother had signs of violence.

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