Twenty-one-year-old Evelyn Hernández had always maintained she was innocent, saying that she did not know she was pregnant and lost consciousness during the birth: Via BBCWorld justiciaparaEvelyn
Evelyn Hernández thanked her mother after being cleared
"Thank God, justice has been done," she said as she stood on the steps outside the court house, free after 33"hard" months behind bars."My future is to continue studying and to move forward with my goals. I am happy," she said, according to AFP news agency.Media playback is unsupported on your deviceHowever, she added, the fight was not over: Ms Hernández's case was the first of its kind in El Salvador in which a full retrial had been ordered.
Amnesty International described the verdict as a"resounding victory for the rights of women in El Salvador" and called on the government to"end the shameful and discriminatory practice of criminalising women".What happened? "If I'd known I was pregnant I would have awaited [the birth] with pride and joy," she said in the past.
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