Salvadoran woman acquitted over stillbirth

By Nelson Renteria
Updated August 20 2019 - 8:03am, first published 7:57am
A retrial has acquitted Evelyn Hernandez, centre, on charges of killing her stillborn baby.
A retrial has acquitted Evelyn Hernandez, centre, on charges of killing her stillborn baby.

A Salvadoran court has 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 abortion ban.

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