TUESDAY 20 AUGUST 2019Rape victim who faced over 40-
years in jail for stillbirth cleared
in El Salvador
Evelyn Hernandez (centre) in San Salvador yesterday after being cleared (AFP)
LUCY ANNA GRAY
A rape victim who faced up to 40-years in prison after she suffered a stillbirth was cleared at retrial
yesterday. Evelyn Hernández was sentenced to 30 years in prison for aggravated homicide by a court in El
Salvador in July 2017. She was prosecuted under the Central American country’s strict abortion laws.
Now 21, she became pregnant after she was raped by a gang member when she was 18-years-old.
Ms Hernández has always maintained that she was unaware she was carrying a child.