😢 Torn Dreams #3 - Yéremi Vargas👪
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Torn Dreams: A series dedicated to the families that have been separated by unfortunate circumstances; who are the inspiration of this project, and to the victims who will never be forgotten.
On March 10, 2007, it seemed like an enjoyable Saturday for Yéremi José Vargas Suárez, 7 years old: nice sun, games in a field close to home and a lunch made by his grandmother ... However, when the lady told everyone that the table was served, the whole family arrived, but Yéremi's chair was empty.
It happened in Vecindario, Spain, and the relatives, friends and neighbors soon began to search and contact the competent authorities, who searched every corner of the area; the coast, ponds, wells and trash bins didn't indicated clues about the kid, described by his relatives as a very shy child.
Realities so murky and desperate for a grandfather who fought against cancer and a mother who stays on pills (mostly sedated) are the ones that bring out the true intentions of people: while a woman reported the kidnapping of her daughter to alert others and open a possibility of a solution to the Vargas Suárez case, other despicable subjects took advantage of the situation to call, pretend to be kidnappers and ask for money.
Ithaisa Suarez, the tormented mother, whose faith hung on psychiatric treatments and weekly psychological appointments, constantly recriminated: "the courage that i feel is that the last time I saw him I could not even say goodbye, or kiss him, or anything, because nobody ever imagined this," she said in 2008, just one year after the disappearance of his son.
In March 2012, the Civil Guard released information that only professionals handled and reactivated the tracking. Among these revealed signs, there was a Renault 5 car from which, four years later, the owner was known: Antonio Ojeda Bordón, also called Juan "el Rubio", big suspect of the despicable act.
"El Rubio" was convicted at the end of 2016 for a crime of sexual assault on a minor and has a very compromising criminal record. Despite not wanting to give statements or DNA samples, his cellmate said he confessed to having killed Yéremi.
Gran Canaria will undoubtedly be marked by this fact that it snatched the innocence of a child and forever changed the life of a family that yearns, beyond justice, to locate the physical remains and, with it, give peace to the soul of his remembered boy.
