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Ismael Ureña Pérez was 14 years old when last summer he decided to leave the boarding house where he was concentrated, in the San Luis municipality, Santo Domingo Este, pursuing the dream of signing for the Big Leagues. He told his older brother that he couldn’t feel his legs, his eyes turned yellow and his urine was as red as blood.
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“Mommy, they are mistreating me,” he told his mother, Iris Pérez, who upon confirming the urine asked him not to return to play and took him to the doctor. There the analyzes confirmed that substances that are injected into the horses to improve performance. Information that the teenager confirmed and that he had refused to tell his parents.
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A few days after being hospitalized, Ismael died. But the drama did not end at the cemetery. Two of his brothers, who also they trained in the Yordy Cabrera Baseball Academy, have been left with consequences, such as tachycardia and alteration in vista.
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Her parents, Inoel Ureña and Iris Pérez, powerless but with few resources, traveled to Santiago de los Caballeros and told the case to lawyer José Orlando Aracena Peña, from the Family Without Violence Foundation (Funfasinvi), who decided to take it on.
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“I’m here because I want to justicebecause they killed me son and I want justice for me son“Inoel Ureña is seen saying with a broken voice in a video on Tik Tok uploaded to the account of lawyer Russel Aracena, a member of the aforementioned NGO. “Because they were injecting me with things that I have not given him the order to give me. inject me son and that’s why I want justice“.
The complaint
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On Tuesday, five Funfasinvi lawyers presented complaint formal in the Prosecutor’s Office of Santo Domingo Este against Yordy Cabrera, baseball player who runs the academy where the events would have occurred.
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They seek that, immediately, a measure of coercion be known and imposed preventive detention to Cabrera, 34 years old, who after playing his first five seasons as an infielder (2010-2013), became a pitcher and worked for the last time in the 2022-2023 season for the Gigantes del Cibao.
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They accuse the baseball player of violating articles 295, 302, 303 of the Dominican Penal Code, in addition to the Health Law (42-01), which deals with pharmaceutical products. Also articles 397 and 412 of the Code for the Protection of the Rights of Children ChildrenGirls and Adolescents, in addition to Law 50-88 on Drugs and Controlled Substances.
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He Bodedoneknown as “caballín” in the baseball subculture, is a steroid used to horsesbut there is a version aimed at humans. It is the substance that has caused suspensions in the MLB to players like Jenrry Mejía, Abraham Almonte, Jorge Bonifacio, Francis Martes and Noelvi Marte.
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Rescue Esmerling
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“I was in panic when the family contacted me, I have a grandson who is in an academy,” Aracena tells Free Diaryon the phone from Santiago. “The furthest thing one can get is that a boy is being experimented with horse substance. When the scouts come they inject them to present him with a super baseball player, they transform when injected, but when the effects wear off, many of them fall apart,” explains the lawyer, whose case prompted him to delve into the player development industry.
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The foundation has taken the case as a torch and calls it “Rescuing Esmerling“, because of the consequences that one of the young people in the family has been left with.
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“This Attorney’s Office of Children and Girls must be empowered by these schools (academies) and take control, because all of this cannot continue happening,” Aracena insists.
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They appeal to a series of illicit of the ley 136-03 that condemns using substances and injecting minors without the authorization of their parents.
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The legal professional explained that last week a first complaint and requested that the file be merged, so that the prosecutor in charge of the investigation can include the case of the three victims.
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Cabrera was signed by the Athletics in 2010 and then went through the Marlins, Tigers, Giants and Dodgers until 2019. In the Lidomwas part of Estrellas, Esído, Águilas and Gigantes, in addition to reinforcing in Puerto Rico, Mexico and Canada.
