El Salvador seeking third trial of rape victim acquitted after being handed 30-year prison sentence for stillbirth

Prosecutors have announced they will appeal against the recent acquittal of a teenage rape victim in El Salvador who was convicted for murdering her child and jailed for nearly three years after a stillbirth.Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez was given a 30-year jail sentence in 2017 for aggravated murder by a female judge who ruled the teenager had induced an abortion.

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