Retrial hope for girl jailed over stillbirth
A RAPE victim jailed for 30 years after giving birth to a stillborn boy in a toilet has been freed after three years, pending a retrial.
Evelyn Hernandez, 20, had been convicted of aggravated homicide but maintained she didn’t even know she was pregnant.
After an appeal, an El Salvador court has ordered a retrial and she can live at home during the process.
She said she had been repeatedly raped by a gang member but prosecutors said she was a murderer because she had not sought antenatal care.
The Central American country bans abortion in all cases and dozens of women have been jailed after having miscarriages.
Amnesty calls it “one of the most dangerous countries to be a woman”.