Mother Of “Elián the Sequel” Abused Her And Her Brother With A Stick, Abuses Them Now With Poetry

The 4 year-old Cuban girl at the center of a Miami custody battle between her Coral Gables foster parents and her biological father from the island was routinely beaten by her suicidal mother, according to court testimony by the girl’s older half-brother. (Who saw that coming?) In Cuba and in the States, the mother–pictured here–would pull the girl’s hair, choke her brother, and beat them with a stick but wasn’t relieved of their custody by U.S. officials until she took a kitchen knife to her wrists. Lawyers for foster father Joe Cubas are hoping the fact that biological pops Rafael Izquierdo allegedly did nothing to stop the abuse will show he’s unfit to take the girl home with him for good. The mother, meanwhile, took advantage of the spotlight to entertain the media circus… with woe-is-me poetry:

During a lunch break, surrounded by reporters outside the courthouse, she tearfully read a poem she wrote as a plea to her son. ”One day you’ll understand that a good mother is not an object, a toy, an insignificant thing,” she read in Spanish. “One day you’ll understand how much I love you, adore you. One day you’ll understand.”

Yeah, son. One day you’ll understand why your mom then called you a liar in her next breath, saying you had exaggerated the nature of all those beatings. That’s just what good mothers do.

Brother tells of abuse in Cuban custody case [Miami Herald]
Earlier, Miami Press Won’t Release Name of Cuban Girl In Custody Case, So Let’s Just Call Her Elián the Sequel