Feminist platforms raised the number of verified femicides in Cuba to 51 this Thursday for the year to date, classifying them as"vicarious femicide"It seems there was an issue with the text provided. Please provide the full text you'd like me to translate.the death of the child Edgar Aliesky Martínez Torres, who was killed by his fatherin the town of Minas, in the province of Camagüey.
Vicario femicide occurs when the aggressor kills a third person—children or other relatives—to cause suffering to the victim, in this case, the mother of the minor.
"A fact of this magnitude indicates the severity that femicide violence has reached in light of the inaction of the authorities and the complicit silence of international organizations," denounced YoSíTe Creo en Cuba and the Alas Tensas Gender Observatory (OGAT).
"We have a debt to Edgar Aliesky and all the children who have suffered the most terrible of deaths," concluded the platforms.
They listed seven minors—ranging in age from five months to ten years—who have died in Cuba since 2019 as a result of vicarious violence.
However, in only two of those cases was the murderer the biological father of the victims, while in five other cases, they were stepfathers or ex-stepfathers.
-Carlos Duviel Sánchez Estévez, 10 years old (April 8, 2019) Villa Clara, Caibarién. Perpetrator: father.
-Daughter of Yodeisi Fabelo Carballo, 7 years old (August 17, 2022). Camagüey, Vertientes. Perpetrator: ex-stepfather.
- Baby of Eriday Soto Martínez, 5 months old, (March 24, 2022) Las Tunas, Jobabo. Perpetrator: father.
-Yaliannis Falls Espinosa, 2 years old, (4-15-2020) Las Tunas, Amancio. Perpetrator: ex-stepfather.
-Rachely Guerra Espinosa, 5 years old, (4-15-2020) Las Tunas, Amancio. Assailant: ex-stepfather.
-Yulia Lía Romero Camejo, 1 year old (27-7-2020), Guantánamo, Baracoa. Perpetrator: stepfather.
Dilan Osmel Valdés Pompa, 1 year old (December 27, 2020), Santiago de Cuba, Contramaestre. Perpetrator: ex-stepfather.
This Wednesday, hundreds of Cubans expressed their shock in various forums at the murder of the child Edgar Alieski Martínez Torres, which was confirmed on social media by the child's own mother, Keilin Torres Varela.
In a post circulating on social media, the woman urged anyone who sees the individual—identified as Alieski Martínez Ferrer—to report it immediately, as he is a fugitive from justice.
An atrocious crime
Although there are many gaps and no official information about what happened, according to reports on social media, the child was being watched by his maternal grandmother when his father came to pick him up.
Although he went with the intention of ending his life, the family claims that no one imagined he could harm the child.
The man hanged the minor and then, during his escape, allegedly assaulted a pregnant woman on the street who was on her way to a medical appointment, took advantage of her and stole her cell phone. The woman is reportedly hospitalized in critical condition at the Materno Hospital in Camagüey.
The child's mother is being guarded by the police because the man claimed he would go after her to do the same.
A report on the case in the Facebook group "Crímenes en Cuba" claims that the reason the man committed such a heinous crime was the mother's refusal to continue the relationship with him.
Unfortunately, this is not the first reported filicide in Cuba in recent hours. A 17-year-old teenager identified as Jader Machado Fis was killed by his own father on Monday in the city of Las Tunas, according to various reports on social media.
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