After asking for help, relatives and neighbors called the police and the young woman went first to the hospital and then to jail. In fact, she was unable to attend the first hearing -in which provisional detention was ordered- because she still had medical problems derived from the obstetric emergencyexplained the Association.
The process concluded in the first instance on June 29, with a sentence of 50 years in prison. The organization announced that Lesli will appeal the sentence and questioned the process itself, pointing out, for example, that the judge had included among his arguments that “Mothers are the source of protection for children in any circumstance of life and you were not.”
Likewise, he regretted that some of the evidence presented by the defense was not taken into account and that it alludes, for example, to the family circumstances of the young woman, the third of seven siblings in a family that lives in the extreme poberty Y no access to educational resources.
“We have tried to close the page on the sad history of El Salvador that unjustly condemns impoverished women due to obstetric emergencies, but the Salvadoran State, once again, continues to be cruel to women who have not had the rights or conditions to defend themselves,” lamented the President of the Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion, Morena Herrera.
El Salvador, one of the most restrictive nations
El Salvador is one of the most restrictive countries in the world for abortion, in such a way that on numerous occasions the interruption of pregnancy, whether voluntary or not, leads to accusations of homicide. The government of Nayib Bukele it does not plan to introduce short-term changes in favor of women in the legislation.
In El Salvador, prosecutors and judges classify obstetric emergencies and cases of miscarriage as “aggravated homicide,” with sentences of up to 50 years.
This, despite the Salvadoran Penal Code Since 1998, it establishes sentences of up to 8 years for abortion, a practice prohibited in the Central American country in all cases.
Since 2009, 65 women convicted of health emergencies during pregnancy, most of them in precarious economic conditions, were released supported by Acdatee and other groups.
Last year, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR-Court) found the State of El Salvador responsible for the case of Manuela, a Salvadoran woman who died in 2010 in prison, serving a 30-year sentence for an out-of-hospital delivery classified as aggravated homicide.
Source: Ambito
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