Rape victim sent to prison due to delivering a stillborn in El Salvador

[Morphine Prince 109,647]

In El Salvador, 19-year-old Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez Cruz, a high school student and survivor of multiple rapes, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for delivering a stillborn baby. She was arrested at a hospital in April 2016 on suspicion of having an abortion — a procedure that’s been totally illegal in El Salvador for the last 20 years — after giving birth in an outhouse at her home, then fainting from massive blood loss.

After an investigation, it was determined that Hernandez had not attempted to procure an abortion — but she wasn’t freed. Instead, the charges against her were changed to aggravated homicide, with prosecutors arguing that her failure to seek out medical care during her pregnancy amounted to murder.

Hernandez, though, said she didn’t know she was pregnant until after she’d given birth and awoke in the hospital; she’d had intermittent bleeding throughout the pregnancy, and thought only that she was experiencing intense stomach pain during contractions.

Hernandez had been in a forced sexual relationship with a suspected gang member, subjected to repeated rapes she never reported to authorities because she was afraid of the consequences. She became pregnant as a result of these rapes.

The judge who presided over the case sided with prosecutors, agreeing with the claim that Hernandez had thrown the baby in the toilet after giving birth with the intention to kill him. Doctors, meanwhile, were unable to determine whether or not the baby died in utero or in the moments after he was delivered.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/19-old-rape-victim-el-224515750.html

 

[HermioneGranger 608]

This is horrible  How can people be so stupid and ignorant?

[SlaeUrAnus 16,111]

1 minute ago, HermioneGranger said:

This is horrible  How can people be so stupid and ignorant?

Inhumane and disgusting too! 

[Tomiel25 2,122]

Sadly thats the way that the laws works in these countrys , Where the law is not to protect the population if not to keep it repressed, and the real delinquents and the violence are the ones who rule, what a bad thing im stuck here. 

[JanPianoMusic 730]

The title of this thread gets worse the more you read

 

Rape victim

Rape victim sent to prison

Rape victim sent to prison due to delivering a stillborn

 

[Mary Jane Wayne 1,997]

Things like this make me really angry, I feel like it's personally affecting me. It's 2017. Why are people still like this? Poor girl