MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Jeysa Serrano Mojena, 30, was murdered in her own home earlier this month at kilometer 4 of the Viñales highway, in the Pinar del Rio Province. The alleged murderer would have been her brother-in-law.
CubaNet He was able to confirm with two people close to the victim the femicide of the young mother, whom her attacker raped and later suffocated, leaving her lying in her bed with her sleeping children in the house.
“Jeysa’s husband recently emigrated to the United States, so she was alone with her children. The murderer, who is the brother of her partner, took advantage of the fact that she went out for a moment to take a pill to her mother-in-law (who lives next door to her) and slipped into the house. When she arrived, he was inside, ”she recounts to CubaNet a friend of the victim who asked to protect her identity.
Serrano’s body was found without clothes and with signs of sexual assault, which was later confirmed by forensic studies.
“The murderer went to the wake pretending to be an affected relative, as if he had done nothing. The first indication of his guilt was because the children feared him and said that ‘his uncle was a bad man’. After doing some tests, they arrested him,” the source points out.
Currently, the defendant is in custody and finally agreed to the reconstruction of the facts.
Jeysa is survived by two little ones: a three-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy.
“Jeysa’s husband could not travel to bury her and be with her children because she still does not have papers. A relative of his in the United States was preparing the humanitarian parole for her and her children when everything happened. Now they are trying to get them out as soon as possible and that they at least have their father,” said the victim’s friend.
With this crime there are 12 femicide registered in Cuba so far this year, which represents (in seven weeks) more than a third of the total number of women murdered for gender reasons in 2022, according to reports from independent organizations. This year they have killed almost two women every seven days. Even so, this figure represents only an underreporting. These are the cases that the press and independent observatories have been able to confirm. We do not know how many women are killed in Cuba each year as a result of male violence. We do not know for sure because the Government does not make statistics visible or report the vast majority of cases.
Two femicides in Cuba every week
A Cuban identified as Yurina Yaque Perez was murdered on the night of February 13 on Céspedes avenue in the Sueño neighborhood, in Santiago de Cuba. The woman would have been killed by her partner, who cut her throat in the middle of the street.
Three days ago, Mercedes Vasallo Herrera, 51, was murdered by her partner in Jovellanos, Matanzas, in her own room.
Meanwhile, in Camagüey, Arisdani Viamontes Thomas, 43 years old, would have been murdered by her husband Yisney López in the house where they both lived on January 27. Her perpetrator killed her with a knife, according to a relative who contacted CubaNet.
Most of the Cuban women murdered this year have been killed in their own homes or very close by by men they knew and trusted.
