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    Conservative judge rules - teenage rape-victim has to serve 30 years in jail

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      Devken last edited by

      http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world-0/el-salvador-abortion-case-raped-woman-jailed-miscarriage-evelyn-beatriz-hern-ndez-cruz-prison-a7827891.html
      https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jul/06/el-salvador-teen-rape-victim-sentenced-30-years-prison-stillbirth

      A teenage rape victim in El Salvador has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for murder after having a stillbirth, the latest in a long line of failures of justice against pregnant women in the Central American country.
      Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez Cruz, 19, from a small rural community in Cuscatlán, eastern El Salvador, was convicted on the grounds that failing to seek antenatal care amounted to murder.

      Hernandez, a high school student, gave birth into the toilet in April 2016 after falling ill with acute back and stomach pain.

      Hernandez, who at the time was 18, was in her third trimester, but hadn’t realised that she was pregnant. She had been repeatedly raped by a gang member over several months as part of a forced sexual relationship.

      And this is why you don't want conservative christians dictating laws, this is why the law should be based on secular and humanist principles. El Salvador has a problem.

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        raphjd Forum Administrator last edited by

        I completely agree on only secular law.

        NO RELIGION should dictate laws.  Religions should be taxed like luxury/sin items.

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          strangeloop last edited by

          @Devken:

          And this is why you don't want conservative christians religious fundamentalists dictating laws, this is why the law should be based on secular and humanist principles. El Salvador has a problem.

          Absolutely.

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