El Salvador woman freed after abortion conviction

Source: BBC

El Salvador woman freed after abortion conviction

18 January 2024

By Leonardo Rocha
Americas Regional Editor

A Salvadoran woman has been freed from prison more than seven years after she was convicted for having an abortion.

The 28-year-old, identified only as Lilian, was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2015.

She gave birth to a girl in a public hospital in 2015, but the baby suffered health complications and died there three days later.

There is a total ban on abortion in El Salvador, which has one of the world's strictest anti-abortion laws.

Prosecutors had accused Lilian of not taking care of the foetus during her pregnancy, and she was charged with negligence and aggravated murder.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68014699


Lilian's baby girl died under the care of doctors, but she was prosecuted for neglect and murder (Getty Images)