Mexican woman who killed her rapist in self-defense is sentenced to six years in prison

A judge sentenced a woman to six years in prison mexican that she killed the man who raped her in self-defense, a decision that sparked criticism of the role of justice in the face of gender violence.

Roxana Ruiz23, was arrested two years ago for the death of a man who sexually assaulted her in the populous municipality of Nezahualcoyotlin the center Mexico statethe region of the country where more crimes are committed femicideaccording to official statistics.

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In Mexico 11 murders of women are counted daily.

Ruiz was sentenced Monday to six years in prison and to pay 285,000 pesos (about $16,000) to the attacker’s family, who sued her, she told reporters. Angel Carreralawyer for the woman.

According to Carrera, the judge considered that in Ruiz’s reaction there was a “excess self defense”.

“They pointed out a penalty that we consider high, that is not justified and that does not establish why he reached that conclusion” the magistrate, affirmed the jurist.

The woman, who has 10 days to appeal the decision. She spent nine months in prison until a court allowed her to take her case on probation.

In a letter written in prison, Ruiz said that after having a beer with a friend, a man she met there insisted on walking her home. Once there, she asked him to stay the night, claiming that she lived far from her.

But when he was resting, he sexually assaulted her, hit her and threatened to kill her, according to her testimony, in which she assures that when defending herself she suffocated him with a T-shirt. The next day she was arrested.

After the hearing, Ruiz said she was disappointed in the Mexican justice system. “If I hadn’t defended myself, I would be the one who would be dead”, he declared to the press.

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The colective “We love each other alive Neza”, which has followed the case, maintained that “no woman should be imprisoned for (…) safeguarding the life that the State does not guarantee”, according to a statement.

“The State prefers to see us dead”, expressed the feminist collective on her side Paste Up Girlsadding to the wave of criticism that unleashed the condemnation on social networks, where some users called it “shameful”.

Mexico, with a population of 126 million, registered 3,754 murders of women last year, of which 947 were classified as femicides, according to the government.

Source: Elcomercio

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