They report beating a young man with disabilities in Holguín

Relatives of a disabled young Cuban woman reported that she was brutally beaten by a neighbor and the police have done nothing to punish the aggressor.

The victim, a 23-year-old girl named Arelis, was hit with an aluminum cane in various parts of her body, including her head, by a neighbor named Mariela in the Guerrita neighborhood of Mayarí, Holguín province.

Arelis's mother points out that her daughter suffers from ventricular dilation, generalized epilepsy, severe mental retardation, a malformation syndrome, a tumor in the tibia bone called osteochondroma, and schizophrenia, but she assures that she has had this disease under control for more than a year. control.

"She is an affectionate girl who likes to kiss everyone," he explained.

Areli's sister lives in Uruguay and told CyberCuba Since her mother is sick with cancer and is undergoing treatment in Havana, the young woman stayed in Mayarí in the care of her father.

"She spends the day sitting on the road, on some pipes. On the day of the attack she was sitting where she usually does next to a man who sells the numbers of the bolita, an illegal game very popular in Cuba. It was then that a girl who "He grew up in the neighborhood with us, he was with a girl and he went over to where my sister was to play some numbers," he explained.

According to her version, "at that moment my sister wanted to hug the girl and the woman reacted brutally. She asked an old man who was there for an aluminum cane and began to hit her savagely. She inflicted several wounds on her head, causing her bruises in various parts of the body," he explained.

"The person who attacked her, whose name is Mariela, knows her, she was born in the neighborhood just like her. It is incomprehensible what she did to my sister because she is a girl who cannot defend herself, she has malformations in her hands," she says.

The family asks for justice, but the sister says that angrily she sent an audio to Areli's aggressor telling her that she would beat her when she returned to Cuba, and the woman reported her to the police, who now say that they will not allow her entry to the house. island.

Similar complaints on social networks show the high rates of impunity on the island, where violence, robberies and attacks between citizens have increased.

Recently a Cuban family denounced impunity in the case of a 15-year-old adolescent named Damián, stabbed on February 10 in Pinar del Río by two individuals who remain at large.

Also this Tuesday, the complaint of a Cuban mother whose son was stabbed in Mayabeque and the aggressor is still at large, because he is apparently a police informant.