What’s Current: Teenage rape victim sentenced to 30 years in prison after stillbirth in El Salvador

Salvadoran women take part in a demonstration to demand the decriminalization of abortion in San Salvador on 23 February 2017. (Image: Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images)

Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez Cruz, a 19-year old woman from El Salvador who was pregnant as the result of repeated rapes and had a stillbirth, has been convicted of murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison. 

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Susan Cox

Susan Cox is a feminist writer and academic living in the United States. She teaches in Philosophy.