The authorities of the Villa Clara Sports Initiation School (Eide) confirmed this Friday the violent death of a newborn, the son of one of the school’s basketball students. The educational institution called an urgent meeting of parents for this Sunday and indicated that they would define the “responsibilities”.
in a brief release On their Facebook profile, the Eide directors exposed the “situation that arose with an extra-hospital delivery of an athlete from the basketball team,” but avoided offering details about the perpetrator of the crime and the conditions in which the body was found. , of which photographs circulated on social networks. They also did not reveal if there were any detainees.
The case came to light due to several complaints from users on social networks and a publication of the activist Diasniurka Salcedo Verdecia, who shared the out-of-focus photograph of the newborn lying on the grass. “This is what the Police should do, watch out to avoid this type of thing, not be watching the opposition,” she wrote in her post.
Although there is no official version, various hypotheses of what happened have circulated on networks. An 18-year-old student, whose identity is still unknown, allegedly gave birth at night and threw the newborn from the second floor of the school. The baby was found in the early hours of Thursday, still alive, and was transferred to the José Luis Miranda Pediatric Hospital, where she died.
An 18-year-old student, whose identity is still unknown, allegedly gave birth at night and threw the newborn from the second floor of the school.
Salcedo Verdecia shared some catches from a conversation with a source close to the school, who assures that the newborn had several fractures and was “throwing the brain out of the ear”.
The event has aroused the discomfort of users on social networks, who criticize how the authorities did not realize that an athlete was pregnant and how the security guards and the institution’s staff did not listen to the labor.
At the moment, the directors of the educational center have called a meeting of parents for this March 19, in which the results of the teachers, sports, “behavior in the residences and other topics of interest” will be discussed.
In December 2022, two cases of violent deaths of newborns shocked the island. The first was found on a box and covered in bloody rags in the Mulgoba neighborhood of Havana, while the second newborn was located in a state of putrefaction in the province of Las Tunas.
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