Yosvany Villar Ávila, the 14-year-old boy who disappeared in Havana in December 2020, was found dead on Friday in La Loma de Chaple after confessing to the alleged murderer, according to sources in this newspaper. His mother, Airovis Ávila Pérez, confirmed the news to 14ymedio and added that this Monday he will go to legal medicine and will be able to take the body, which will be veiled and cremated that same day in the Cuban capital.
A week after this newspaper reported the minor’s case, the authorities reactivated the case. On Thursday, Ávila explained, “Ariel’s family,” the neighbor she had named as a suspect in her son’s disappearance, was summoned to testify by officers from the 100 and Aldabó prison, regarding “some news.” on the research. These developments included the discovery of the body. This 29-year-old man has been in jail for several months awaiting trial for a similar matter.
“Yes, it was Ariel, we mothers made little mistakes,” the mother told 14ymedio. She insisted to officers from the beginning of the investigation that her son had been seen the day he was lost talking to that neighbor. Months later, when he learned that the man was in prison for allegedly attempting to rape a minor, his suspicions grew stronger. “I told the head of Attention to Minors from the first moment, but he told me that he could not suspect that man if there was no evidence,” she declared disappointed.
Ávila Pérez denounced in an interview with 14ymedio that her son had disappeared more than a year ago without the authorities having done, in her opinion, everything possible to find him.
Ávila Pérez denounced in an interview with 14ymedio that her son had disappeared for more than a year without the authorities having done, in her opinion, everything possible to find him. The delays and the lack of information on the development of the investigation were also among their complaints.
“Work is being done, but we have to wait,” the policemen repeated to the woman, without giving her any new information. Annoyed with the delays, she filed a complaint with the Office of Attention to Citizenship in the Plaza de la Revolución. But the answer she expected never came.
The first phase of the investigation barely lasted a week and, according to Ávila Pérez, when he asked Aguilera’s unit for an explanation and demanded that they continue the search, they replied that it had not been possible “because there was no fuel.” The minor’s mother returned home with the promise of the uniformed men that they would call her when they resumed the investigations, but they did not. Now, his worst suspicions have been confirmed.
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