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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts) Tue Dec 18, 2018, 03:34 AM Dec 2018

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 abuser’s 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

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El Salvador court frees woman on trial after bearing rapist's baby (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2018 OP

She should be granted asylum in the US, if she wants it. nt SunSeeker Dec 2018 #1

Canada might be better at this time than the U.S. still_one Dec 2018 #2

Yep. Or New Zealand...or France...or any functioning democracy with healthcare. nt SunSeeker Dec 2018 #5

The crime was only done to this women, but also not charging the rapist still_one Dec 2018 #3

Slave breeding of women is rampant around the world. US is no exception either. CousinIT Dec 2018 #4

SunSeeker

(51,571 posts)

1. She should be granted asylum in the US, if she wants it. nt

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2018, 04:19 AM

Dec 2018

still_one

(92,217 posts)

2. Canada might be better at this time than the U.S.

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 18, 2018, 06:40 AM

Dec 2018

SunSeeker

(51,571 posts)

5. Yep. Or New Zealand...or France...or any functioning democracy with healthcare. nt

Reply to still_one (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 18, 2018, 01:31 PM

Dec 2018

still_one

(92,217 posts)

3. The crime was only done to this women, but also not charging the rapist

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2018, 06:44 AM

Dec 2018

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 baby’s paternity. Her stepfather was eventually detained, but has not been charged with any crime."

CousinIT

(9,247 posts)

4. Slave breeding of women is rampant around the world. US is no exception either.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2018, 08:56 AM

Dec 2018

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/

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