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The family of Irina García, the 39-year-old Cuban murdered allegedly by her own son in October 2023, is facing a new and painful affront: the circulation on social media of explicit images of her lifeless body.
This serious invasion of privacy has motivated the family to file a civil lawsuit against four government institutions with the aim of identifying and punishing those responsible.
The family's lawyer, Stephan López, has confirmed that he is in the process of preparing a civil lawsuit.
“The Hialeah police, the detectives from Major Crimes, the Miami-Dade County prosecutor's office led by Kathy Fernández Rundle, the medical examiner, and the court clerk of the Miami-Dade County court had access to private information regarding Irina's body,” López stated in comments to Telemundo 51, referring directly to the four government entities that are now under scrutiny.
These institutions were formally notified, and according to the lawyer, an internal investigation will need to be conducted over a period of six months.
The objective: is to clarify how the leak occurred and to determine who the material or intellectual authors of what López describes as a “misdeed” are.
This breach has raised alarms about how highly confidential and sensitive material, under the custody of the authorities, ended up in the wrong hands and was even published.
The photographs, as reported, come directly from the crime scene and should have been safeguarded by the entities responsible for the investigation.
According to López, the photos in question are not the ones Derek Rosa allegedly shared with a friend on social media after the crime.
It is, he asserts, images taken by the police and the medical examiner, which could only be accessed by individuals involved in the investigation.
The publication of the photos constitutes, in her words, at a minimum "negligence" and a "violation of the rights as a human being" for both Irina García and her immediate family members.
A family that seeks not money, but justice
Although civil lawsuits usually end with monetary compensation, López made it clear that his clients' objective is not financial.
“What interests Isabel and José the least is money. They are not interested in money, and neither am I,” he emphasized.
What the family wants, in the words of their lawyer, is justice.
“All they want is justice, for them to know who the masterminds behind this wrongdoing are,” López insisted.
Condolences and public rejection of the dissemination
Both Isabel Acosta and José Rosa, the father of the accused minor, have raised their voices not only against the leak but also against the way the case has been treated on social media and the general insensitivity with which some users have handled the information.
“When pain does not directly impact you, it is often due to a lack of understanding and an absence of genuine emotion. It is a sign of disrespect,” said José Rosa.
Isabel Acosta, for her part, was devastated: “That was the darkest night of my life, I thought that it wasn't real, that it wasn't happening to me.”
"May they never want to experience what I am going through. May they respect the memory of my daughter and the pain I feel," Acosta expressed through tears.
This new episode of outrage adds to the tragedy that occurred on October 12, 2023, when Irina was killed in Hialeah, allegedly by her 13-year-old son, Derek Rosa.
That event shocked the community; now, the revictimization of the family deepens their suffering even further.
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