Outrage as teenager, 19, is jailed for 30 years under El Salvador’s strict anti-abortion laws after giving birth to her rapist’s ‘stillborn baby’

‘A teenage rape victim has been jailed for 30 years after the baby she had by her attacker failed to survive, it has emerged.
Prosecutors claimed Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez Cruz, 19, did not want the baby and had thrown the boy into a septic tank at a farmhouse north of El Salvador’s capital.
When she was admitted to hospital after the birth on April 6 last year, staff alerted police who questioned the teenager and later found the body, a court heard.
A judge has since convicted Cruz of aggravated homicide – despite her lawyers claiming that she had she had infact suffered a stillbirth due to pregnancy complications.
Abortion has been criminalised in all circumstances in El Salvador since 1998.’
Read more: Outrage as teenager, 19, is jailed for 30 years under El Salvador’s strict anti-abortion laws after giving birth to her rapist’s ‘stillborn baby’