CDMX, Mexico.-Dianelys Hernández was beaten by her ex-husband on the face, back, head, breasts, abdomen. He is a stocky man over six feet tall and she is barely five feet tall, so Dianelys could barely bite and scratch him to defend herself against her; while he beat her up.
Everything happened inside her house; which he invaded despite the fact that she filed a restraining order. Her ex-partner stopped only when the neighbors, before the Cuban woman’s screams, took it from her upstairs.
Hernández reported him to the police and the only consequence for him was a 30-peso fine.
This episode was denounced by the victim on social networks along with photos of her visibly mistreated face and the documentation of the case.
As reported by the young mother on the Facebook page that she manages, 14 days after filing the complaint, legal medicine ruled that the injuries were not serious and did not require medical treatment. Despite the fact that she has small lumps in her breasts as a result of the beating, which they have not yet been able to analyze in an ultrasound.
Legal medicine, where they did not review her and limited themselves to asking her general information, ruled that the injuries caused by her to her attacker in self-defense (one bite and two six-millimeter scratches), were on par in terms of severity, that those made by him.
“They valued everything without taking into account that I am still undergoing medical treatment, without even having an ultrasound or a mammogram that cannot be done until the inflammation of the breasts subsides, without taking into account that within 72 hours After the event, I was never ordered to make a plaque for the blows still visible on my head. Even after 15 days of the event, the blood moles that formed on my head are still palpable to the touch and visible,” Hernández wrote.
The attacker was his ex-partner Félix Armando Garoz Noguera, who works for the MININT Construction Business Group. Both divorced in 2021 due to rebellion. He refused to sign the documents and they have a terrible relationship, despite the two daughters in common, she recounted on her networks.
Hernández, who works as a chief financial auditor and also has a page with culinary recipes to fight poverty, said she feels utter shame about the few or no laws that are supposed to protect women. In addition, she related the impunity enjoyed by her ex-partner with her work for the Ministry of the Interior.
“Yes [los agresores] they work for the MININT and depending on the relationships you have, don’t worry, the victim’s papers may even disappear, and they will even torment her with so much paperwork and bureaucracy (…) because hardly anyone is there to spend on 72 hours more than 10,400 Cuban pesos in the payment of a lawyer because he will never have one ex officio, they will deny him from the beginning (as was my case)”, he condemned.
In this regard, the Cubalex legal advice center stated that they cannot deny you a public defender if you need one. “The Constitution establishes the mandatory nature of guaranteeing a lawyer from the beginning of the criminal process,” they wrote in theiryour facebook page.
Hernández, who asked the women not to be silent if they were violated, said that the conclusion she draws from her experience is that any abuser in Cuba can hit a woman who doesn’t matter. “As long as you don’t send her to a hospital for therapy or put her in a coma, you can continue abusing her. Everything remains in simple paperwork because they don’t even bother to verify anything”.
Despite the continuous claims of feminist sectors and allies, Cuba continues without a comprehensive gender law.
an independent study recently presented revealed that, of 435 women surveyed in eight provinces of Cuba, 77.3% have suffered domestic or family violence inside their homes or in the homes of relatives.
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