Cenk Uygur
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Rape Victim Sentenced 30 Years After Stillbirth
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July 8, 2017
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11:27Now PlayingA teen rape victim has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a possible miscarriage. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, and Francesca Fiorentini, the hosts of The Young Turks, tell you the story. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“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.
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.
Medical experts were unable to ascertain whether the foetus died in utero or in the moments after delivery.
The female judge accepted the prosecutor’s claims that Hernandez failed to seek antenatal care because she did not want the baby, and threw him into the toilet intending to kill him.”
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Hosts: Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, Francesca Fiorentini
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