El Salvador court absolves woman accused of killing her stillborn child

A Salvadoran court absolved a woman previously convicted of aggravated homicide ...

Evelyn Hernandez, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for a suspected abortion, embraces her lawyer Bertha Deleon after a hearing in Ciudad Delgado, El Salvador August 19, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

Defendant Evelyn Hernandez, 21, has already served three years of the sentence handed down after prosecutors said she had induced an abortion.“Thank God, justice was done,” Hernandez, in tears, told a cheering crowd outside the court building. “We believe the judge was very just in the ruling. The judge said there was no way to prove a crime was committed and that is why was acquitted,” said DeLeon.

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