El Salvador court upholds 30-year jail sentence in stillbirth case

Teodora del Carmen Vasquez was convicted of the aggravated murder of a newborn baby in 2008, but she says it was a stillbirth

An El Salvador court has rejected the appeal of a woman sentenced to 30 years in prison over what she says was a stillbirth.

Teodora del Carmen Vasquez said she was working in 2007 when she began to experience intense pain, then bleeding. She called for help before fainting. As she came round, police officers surrounded her and accused her of murdering her baby by inducing an abortion of her nearly full-term baby.

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Continue reading... December 14, 2017 at 08:16AM