Patricia Williams, 30, was murdered by her partner last Wednesday night, the observatories of Tense Wings Y I do believe you in Cuba. “The events took place in the aggressor’s house, located in the Los Pinos neighborhood, Boyeros municipality, in Havana,” they reported.
“Our condolences go to family and other people close to Patricia, especially to the minor daughter who survives her,” the activists said in a statement on their social networks. With the death of Williams, there are 12 femicides on the Island so far this year.
The observatories insisted on continuing “warning of the singularity of femicide violence, which in this case reiterates the cruelty and cruelty on women’s bodies.” They also pointed out that gender violence in the Cuban case “continues to be fragmented and limited.”
At the same time, they called attention to the sexist murders and the lack of recognition by the Government when a new Penal Code was approved “without defining the different types of femicides.” “Faced with the Cuban State’s ignorance of the problem, femicides fall on society and families,” they affirm.
“Our condolences go to family and other people close to Patricia, especially to the minor daughter who survives her”
On May 17, the murder of the young woman was known. Yusleidy Aguilera Fernandezaged 21 with two young children, who was viciously stabbed to death and had her breasts cut off.
The independent platform Red Femenina de Cuba reported that the events occurred in the neighborhood of Vuelta del Caño, province of Granma, and the murderer, originally from Havana, was arrested in Manzanillo.
At the beginning of June, Alas Tensas and YoSíTeCreo in Cuba reported that they began to record the “vicarious femicides” in their studies of victims of sexist violence, a methodology that is applied in Spain and with which they intend to make visible the lack of protection of the children of battered women.
Since independent observatories began counting victims of sexist violence several years ago, at least six children have been killed for the sole purpose of harming the mother.
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