A man was arrested in Alquízar, Artemisa, accused of assaulting a minor.
According to activist Idelisa Diasniurka Salcedo Verdecia, who shared a video of the arrest, the incident took place in "las 400, Alquízar."
The arrested individual was on the run and is accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old minor.
"The plainclothes officers, according to the person who gave me the report, identified themselves as search and capture officials," added Salcedo.
In recent years, social media has uncovered several cases of abuse that have shaken various communities.
In Santiago de Cuba, an attack that took place last August in the Veguita de Galo neighborhood exposed the fragility of the mechanisms for prison prevention and control.
In this incident, a repeat offender in sexual crimes, who was granted a prison leave, assaulted a young woman in broad daylight. The individual, son of a well-known newspaper vendor in the area, followed the victim and brutally attacked her during a blackout.
The girl managed to escape and take shelter in a nearby house, where she received help from the neighbors before the police intervened.
The justification provided by the criminal during the arrest—that the victim "was not a minor"—generated widespread indignation in the community, which harshly questioned the judicial system for allowing repeat offenders to roam freely with penitentiary benefits.
This event reopened the debate about the state's responsibility in the social reintegration of high-risk criminals and the dangers faced by women and girls in a context of increasing public insecurity, further exacerbated by power outages and a lack of patrols.
In early January, in the José Martí District, also in Santiago de Cuba, another man was arrested, accused of attacking a 21-year-old woman with a machete.
According to reports, the alleged assailant had been released from prison months earlier and was evading capture for a robbery at the Casa de la Cultura in San Pedrito.
The two episodes revealed a constant in sexual offenses on the Island: recidivism, lack of supervision, and the breakdown of penitentiary control mechanisms.
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