They acquitted Evelyn Hernández, the young woman who had been raped and found guilty of abortion in El Salvador.

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Although the Prosecutor's Office had asked 40 years in prison for the young woman, Judge José Virgilio Jurado Martínez has solved this problem. she was not able to "fulfill the guarantor function" of the baby's life by fainting after an obstetric emergency.

Hernández, who lives in a rural community in the province of Cuscatlán in April 2016, at the age of 18, started with abdominal pain, went to the toilet, He bleed a lot and fainted in the latrines. He had been badually abused for months, but He did not know what was happening to him because he had an asymptomatic pregnancy. Her mother took her to the Santa Teresa National Hospital in Cojutepeque where she was diagnosed as having miscarried.

In Salvador, the termination of pregnancy is not allowed under any circumstances. The doctors who treated the teenager reported her to the police.

When the agents arrived at Hernandez, they found in a septic tank the body of a 32-week-old baby. The autopsy established that the baby had died of "aspiration pneumonia".

The prosecutor's office had asked for a 40-year sentence for the young woman because, according to her, "she was responsible for protecting her baby's life and did not prevent her from dying". A few minutes before hearing Judge Hernandez's decision, he told the court: "I'm innocent, check the evidence, let me continue my life, I just hope justice is done."

The young woman had been sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2017, but the Supreme Court annulled this sentence and ordered the trial to be repeated.