El Salvador court frees woman on trial after bearing rapist's baby
Source: Guardian
Imelda Cortez, 20, faced an attempted murder charge under draconian abortion laws after being raped by her stepfather
Nina Lakhani
Mon 17 Dec 2018 17.11 EST Last modified on Mon 17 Dec 2018 19.58 EST
A rape victim who was charged with attempted murder in El Salvador after giving birth to her abusers baby has been found not guilty and freed from jail.
Imelda Cortez, 20, has been in custody since April 2017 after giving birth in a latrine to a baby girl fathered by her abusive stepfather.
She was facing 20 years in prison after prosecutors argued that failing to tell anyone about the pregnancy or seek medical attention for the baby amounted to attempted murder.
The decision to prosecute Cortez, who suffered years of sexual abuse, had prompted outrage around the world.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/17/el-salvador-rape-victim-freed-imelda-cortez-abortion
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)still_one
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(92,394 posts)From the article:
"After she was charged with attempted murder, her stepfather visited her in hospital, threatening to kill her, her siblings and her mother if she reported the abuse. Another patient overheard and told a nurse, who called the police.
At first, prosecutors accused Cortez of inventing the abuse to justify her crime, until a DNA test confirmed the babys paternity. Her stepfather was eventually detained, but has not been charged with any crime."
CousinIT
(9,257 posts)In fact it's what the Republican Party fully supports, just exactly this. This is how women are treated by societies that do not consider them human - only breeding apparatus.
https://www.thenation.com/article/reproductive-rights-and-long-hand-slave-breeding/