Married couple who wanted to defend their minor children on July 12 ended up in prison for an attack

Arrested on July 12 for coming to the defense of their 17-year-old daughter, who was being beaten by the authorities in a park in Surgidero de Batabanó, the marriage formed by Danger Acosta and Yusmely Moreno, aged 43 and 42, respectively, has been in custody for almost three months under the charge of attack.

Beatriz Acosta, Danger’s sister, testified ago a few days in an interview with CiberCuba that neither his brother nor his sister-in-law participated in the protests that took place in the neighborhood on July 11 and 12. Those who participated, he assures, were the couple’s children: two adolescents aged 16 and 17.

The arrest occurred because, on the 12th, in a neighborhood park, Groups of soldiers and people in civilian clothes reportedly began to attack peaceful protesters who were sitting on the ground, among whom was the 17-year-old daughter of Yusmely Moreno.

When he saw that his daughter was being attacked, Moreno, who lives a few meters from the park, went to defend her and claimed that she was a minor. Acosta, who was in the park, also came out to support her, but both he and his wife were beaten and detained.

“My brother is a good citizen, a worker, he has never had problems with the law. He is a fisherman in a fishing industry here in Surgidero. All the people who do they know they know that he sits daily in the park to have a little rum in the afternoons “, says Beatriz Acosta.

Acosta also specifies that “everyone hit there” and that his sister-in-law’s daughter was hit “with a cane” on the head that caused a wound that He merited medical attention. “The blood ran to him,” he says.

Later, the minor was called to testify to the police and, according to what she told Beatriz, they asked her what she had yelled, but she would limit herself to answering that “the same that everyone “already insist that their mother had not participated in the protests.

From that day on, Danger’s sister was left in the care of her youngest daughter, who is six years old, and a 16-year-old teenager. The 17-year-old remains in the family home, although Beatriz Acosta says she helps her with food.

Once a month, or every twenty days, Acosta goes to visit his brother and sister-in-law in the prisons where they were located and brings them food and hygiene. In both trips you must spend 2300 Cuban pesos. Danger is in the Quivicán prison, and Yusmely, in the western women’s prison of El Guatao.

Unlike other people detained after the anti-government protests of 11 July, both can call their family daily, but have not been able to receive visitors. The authorities have explained to people deprived of liberty and their families that, due to the coronavirus, it is not possible at this time to allow that right.

Until now, they do not know the date on which the trial would take place.

Meanwhile, Beatriz Acosta has had to quit her job to be able to take care of her own son, her nephews and her mother. On the very day of her arrest, her mother fainted and her blood pressure rose, and when they took her to the doctor and examined her, they discovered a brain metastasis.

But perhaps it is the youngest girl, the six-year-old, who misses her parents the most. Her aunt says that every so often she checks an almanac to see how long it would be until her mother returned from “work.” The date that Beatriz Acosta has set for her is October 29, although she doesn’t really know when justice will be done with her brother and sister-in-law.

This would not be the first case of people being beaten in the July protests and later imprisoned. For example, Isel Fumero Tuero , 46, was beaten by black berets in Caibarién and later arrested. According to his daughter Yumey Fumero, a resident of Spain, the Villa Clara Prosecutor’s Office asks him for six years of deprivation of liberty.