Fugging madness-El Salvador teen rape victim sentenced to 30 years in prison after stillbirth

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jul/06/el-salvador-teen-rape-victim-sentenced-30-years-prison-stillbirth
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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.
El Salvador: where women are thrown into jail for losing a baby
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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.
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Women are treated worse than animals

[ProudLib72]

1. This is the direction in which we are headed

There are a lot of crazy people in this country applauding this.

[malaise]

2. The same ones who want to take away healthcare

from poor people

[sheshe2]

12. Which are the same ones...

That want women to bury their fetus if aborted or stillborn. I hope someone can help her.

[malaise]

14. Some of them but that list also includes onces who want to profit from funerals

[onecent]

20. That's what our Vice President feels about this. He was gov. or something in

Indiana, and my niece used to go nuts over this guy.

[Lindsay]

3. I had the same thought.

The Talibornagains would like to see the same things happen here.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Omigod, how horrifying.

First, she suffers multiple rapes!

Then she delivers a dead infant.............and now she's going to prison?

I cannot fathom such cruelty by the state.

There is no justice there.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

5. This is pure EVIL! How do men (mostly) continue getting away with this?

Utter inhumanity to women, how the hell is it that abuse of women matters so little to the world?????

[Catmusicfan]

6. What Type of world is this

A victim of violence and justice.

As a survivor of a kidnap and assault I am angry/sad/frustrated for this girl.

[gtar100]

7. Sad how the justice systems throughput the world

rarely have good people tending them. This decision is just absurd and a complete travesty yet someone with a straight face thought it up and made it happen. The devil's minions hard at work.

[Nevernose]

8. Spend some time talking with Salvadorenas about "back home"

You'll be in tears within minutes, and you will never, ever think a bad thought about immigrants again (if you did before). Some areas are apparently like a Mad Max movie.

[malaise]

16. It's really bad

and never forget the role of the transnationals, the Catholic church, Reagan et al in this mess of guns and gangs

[CousinIT]

9. Republicans would love to see women in the US treated the same. Sharia Law? They've no problem w/ it

As long as THEY are the ones implementing it.

[Boomerproud]

10. Can Amnesty International get involved?

This is so horrendous.

[malaise]

17. I hope so

Citizens of the planet must make the noise

[Boomerproud]

19. I hope so too, Malaise.

This young woman MUST be saved.

[CanonRay]

11. Why doesn't the Pope step in here

Heaven must have some influence

[malaise]

18. His church is powerful in these parts

Yes - he should step in.

[Takket]

13. horrific

if i were president i'd have a real hard time not sending in a navy seal team to rescue this woman and bring her here to live out her life in peace. of course with the current state if this country she would be better off if the Canadians rescued her

[StevieM]

15. This woman is a political prisoner.

Is this what we are heading towards?

[Initech]

21. Fuck pro lifers.

[SunSeeker]

22. K & R for exposure.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

23. El Salvador Sounds Like A Republican Paradise

Where they force you to have your rapist's baby, take away your healthcare and all funding to help care for the child, and then jail you when it's stillborn. Pay attention, folks, because this is where we're headed.

Oh, by the way, this is the same group of people who railed against Sharia Law about a month ago and then shamed a female reporter for having the unmitigated gall to wear a sleeveless dress. It's inconceivable how a Party can hate women this much, yet still totally fear Sharia Law. Sounds like Sharia Law would be a perfect fit for Republicans.

[smirkymonkey]

24. This is an outrage on so many levels!

What the fuck is wrong with the world? With men?