They order 25 years in prison for the man who raped and impregnated his granddaughter in Bolivia

Justice Bolivian sentenced a 59-year-old man accused of raping and impregnating his granddaughter, a minor under 15, to 25 years in prison, the State Attorney General’s Office reported Wednesday.

The man, identified as Benito VS, must serve his sentence in the Morros Blancos prison, in the southern region of Tarija, said the departmental prosecutor of the neighboring department of Chuquisaca, Mauricio Nava, quoted in a press release from the Public ministry.

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The Prosecutor’s Office presented in court evidence such as “the psychological report of the adolescent, witness statements, psychological interview of the victim’s younger sister, medical examination that corroborates the pregnancy”among others, indicated Nava.

Therefore, the court considered that the man is the author of the crime of “aggravated violation”.

The case was presented in the Chuquisaca municipality of San Lucas and dates from September 2020, when relatives of the teenager came to visit her house and since there was not enough space to accommodate them, they sent her to sleep in her grandfather’s room, who took advantage this to sexually abuse her, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.

The minor did not report the event out of fear and the sexual assaults were repeated four times, the last in November 2020 while the subject was drunk, explained the prosecutor in the case, Yhoanette Salazar.

Days later, the teenager finally told her parents about the abuse and also told them that she was pregnant, before which a complaint was filed with the Ombudsman for Children and Adolescents, she added.

The Public Ministry did not specify what happened to the minor’s pregnancy, nor how she is currently.

abortion in bolivia It has a prison sentence except in cases of pregnancies due to rape or if the life of the woman is in danger, although to interrupt the pregnancy a court order was required that could take months to come out.

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In 2014, the Constitutional Court issued a ruling that established that judicial authorization is no longer required and that a simple copy of the rape complaint or a medical report, as appropriate, is sufficient to have an abortion.

Feminist organizations have protested the known cases, especially in the last year, of girls who were victims of rape who became pregnant and who had to carry it to term because their parents or guardians decided so.

These entities claim that bolivia have a law on sexual and reproductive rights to guarantee the health and life of girls and women.

Source: Elcomercio

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