The delay in carrying out the trial against Marcos Isaias Dieguez Torresa 21-year-old Cuban accused of murder mid november last year to a minor of barely 14 years in the town of Maniabón, in Puerto Padre, Tunasis inexplicable for residents in the area.
Odenia Barea Velázquez, who made the complaint in Facebook groups about the disappearance of the minor -known among his relatives as “Darío” although later the police identified him as “Willis Wilder Acosta Ávila”- asked the authorities what they are waiting for to bring justice to such a heinous crime.
“I don’t know if you remember, since for many the case of the child ‘Darío’ has been forgotten. I was the one who published the disappearance of the victim on November 13, 2022. The next day he was found dead.“, wrote Barea Velázquez in a Facebook group, who stressed that the murderer was arrested and even acknowledged having committed the crime but that “the reasons were never stated.”
“The police know that he deprived him of his life, while he was in prison he was caught in an escape attempt.. They currently have him incarcerated, receiving visits like any other normal prisoner. Well, the police already know everything, they know that he murdered him, he himself declared. What are they waiting for to do justice?” Questioned the source, familiar with the case.
“What are they waiting for to carry out this trial and let us know what is going to happen? Justice is what we are asking for, justice. I do not think that eight months after this event we still do not have an answer. We want answers, we want a trial. I do not believe that due to such a delay, this case will go unpunished. What are they waiting for? Justice for the boy Dario!”, she concluded.
In the comments section, several Internet users joined the petition for justice, although there was no shortage of those who stated that It should be the family of the victim who, in the first instance, exerts the most pressure on the authorities in this case.
The Cuban Ministry of the Interior (MININT) identified on November 16 Marcos Isaías Diéguez Torres, 21, unemployed and with no criminal record, as the perpetrator of the crime.
The official note – which did not offer details about the probable motivation for the murder that occurred last Sunday – said that Marcos Isaías was arrested on November 14 and that during the interrogation he confessed to having killed his 14-year-old neighbor and explained the mode of operationthis last aspect was also not described in the information disseminated.
The MININT confirmed that The victim’s body was found buried near the quarry in the town of Maniabón, in the municipality of Puerto Padre.”
“The Ministry of the Interior regrets the death of the minor and informs that the process will proceed in accordance with the provisions of the legal regulations in force in our country,” concluded the note, which thanked the “cooperation and rapid action of the authorities and the people in the clarification of the event”.
The MININT statement generated hundreds of comments from Cubans who asked that the full weight of the law fall on the murderer.something that eight months later, has not yet happened for reasons that are unknown.
The victim, who was studying in ninth grade at the “Mártires de Maniabón” high school, went out with his neighbor to hunt with a stone thrower, according to what the independent media revealed at the time. Cubanetciting sources close to the case.
In the place where the body of the minor was found, the handle of the stone thrower that he carried with him was also found, but there was no trace of the electronic device. The stone-thrower’s garters -according to the source- were taken from the neighbor with whom the child left his house.
After a harrowing search that lasted for several hours, the body was located on Monday morning. The minor, described as “sociable and well-behaved”, was the only child of a marriage made up of a housewife and a farm worker.
Shortly before four in the afternoon on Monday, the body of the 14-year-old teenager arrived at his home, coming from legal medicine, amid the consternation and sadness of the residents of Maniabón, a small town of just over 6,000 inhabitants. . He was buried after five in the afternoon of that same day.
