A controversial court case involving a teenage rape victim and the death of her baby was reopened in El Salvador on Monday—only to be quickly suspended again. In 2016, Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez was ...

A 21-year-old rape victim in El Salvador who was suspected of having an abortion after her baby was found dead in the toilet where she gave birth has been cleared of murder in a case that attracted ...

Abortion is illegal in all circumstances in El Salvador, where many women have been imprisoned for what they say were actually miscarriages or stillbirths. One of those women, Evelyn Beatríz Hernández ...

A 21-year-old woman in El Salvador who says she was raped and unwittingly gave birth to a stillborn son in a toilet has been cleared of murder during a retrial. Evelyn Hernandez had always maintained ...

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The retrial of a teenage rape victim will resume on Thursday in El Salvador, in a case that has drawn global attention to the country's strict anti-abortion laws. Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez, now 21, ...

San Salvador, El Salvador-- A young woman who birthed a baby into a toilet in El Salvador faces a second trial for murder Monday in a case that has drawn international attention because of the country ...

Salvadoran maid Evelyn Hernandez says she did not realize she was pregnant when as an 18-year-old she delivered a stillborn son after a three-day stomach ache. A court in the Central American country, ...

A Salvadoran court on Monday acquitted a woman accused of homicide after giving birth to a stillborn baby in a case that drew international attention to the socially conservative nation's strict ...

The controversial retrial of a rape victim in El Salvador concluded Friday, a case that has drawn international attention because of the country’s strict abortion laws and could see the young woman’s ...