Colombia’s Supreme Court hands out 1st ever femicide conviction

Colombia’s Supreme Court hands out 1st ever femicide conviction
Mar 12, 2015 posted by Alice Bradshaw-Smith

Colombia’s Supreme Court has ruled the country’s first ever case of convicted femicide, in an unprecedented decision set to please women’s rights campaigners earlier this week.

The Supreme Court sentenced Alexander de Jesus Ortiz to 18 years in prison for the brutal murder of his wife, Sandra Patricia Correa, on the grounds that the killing was motivated by Correa’s gender.

This overturns a lower court ruling that the murder had been a crime committed through passion and jealousy.

“This is not a love story but the crushing of a woman by a man who considered her to be his subordinate,” the Court said.

Correa had been subject to numerous vicious beatings and nine stab wounds at the mercy of her husband before he eventually killed her in 2012.

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