A courtroom inwards Republic of El Salvador sentenced a teenage rape victim whose babe died at nascency to xxx years' jail for murder, an abortion rights grouping said.
Evelyn Hernandez gave nascency inwards Apr final twelvemonth inwards the makeshift bath of her habitation inwards the fundamental Cuscatlan region. She was xviii years quondam in addition to viii months pregnant.
She said her boy was stillborn but a courtroom inwards the metropolis of Cojutepeque convicted her on Midweek of murdering him, abortion rights grouping ACDATEE said.
A spokeswoman for the group, Morena Herrera, said Hernandez was convicted "with no immediately proof" in addition to that the courtroom failed to receive got into trouble organisation human relationship key forensic evidence.
ACDATEE cited a pathologist's study which it said indicated the babe had choked to decease spell withal inwards the womb.
Prosecutors argued Hernandez was culpable for non having sought prenatal care, ACDATEE said.
It said Hernandez had non known she was meaning in addition to gave nascency on the privy afterwards feeling abdominal pains.
Hernandez got meaning equally the effect of a rape which she did non study out of fearfulness because her menage unit of measurement had been threatened.
"The conviction is unjust in addition to nosotros are going to appeal," Herrera told AFP.
"This illustration is testify that the judicial organisation acts amongst prejudice."
Abortion nether whatever circumstances is illegal inwards El Salvador, where it is classed equally aggravated homicide.
Even women who abort due to nascency defects or wellness complications opportunity jail sentences of upwards to xl years. Campaigners tell closed to receive got been jailed afterwards suffering miscarriages.
The country's abortion police made international headlines inwards 2013 when a sick adult woman was forbidden from aborting a fetus that did non receive got a head.
Under a ruling past times the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Salvadoran province eventually authorised that adult woman to undergo a Cesarean section. The babe died a few hours afterwards the procedure.
Lawmakers presented a mouth inwards the Salvadoran legislature inwards Oct final twelvemonth proposing to decriminalise abortion. The mouth has been blocked past times conservative parties.
AFP