On May 11, through the Facebook page of the collective We want each other alive Neza and various movements that support women on social networks, viralized the case of Roxana Ruiz Santiago, a 23-year-old girl from an indigenous community in Oaxaca, Mexico, who, on May 15, was sentenced to just over six years of imprisonment. prison for murdering her sexual offender in self-defense.
As reported in networks, Roxana is a girl who, like hundreds of people in the country, found herself in need of migrating from her hometown to the State of Mexico in search of a better future for her economy and her life. However, in May 2021 she was sexually abused in her own home and in her instinct to defend herself and get her abuser off her, she beat him to death in self-defense. .
Given the circumstances, the young indigenous woman was in pretrial detention for nine months and it was not until last February that her judicial proceeding was followed up, in which her conditional release was sought, under the condition that she would appear weekly to sign before the judge and notify the authorities of their actions.
However, things were not like that, because this May 15, during the oral trial filed against her, the judge of the State of Mexico, Mónica Osorio Palomino, determined that despite proving Roxana was a victim of rape, that It does not justify her having killed her assailant excessively, since she could have given him a simple blow and left him unconscious and not hit him several times until he was lifeless and even tried to leave his body in a corner.
🔴 For “excessive use of self-defense”, the judge sentenced Roxana Ruiz to 6 years and 2 months in prison, who defended herself against her sexual assaulter, who died after his victim defended himself. In addition, Roxana must pay compensation of 280 thousand pesospic.twitter.com/KbO2N3WJ3P
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Under this argument, the judge of the State of Mexico sentenced her to six years and two months in prison for the crime of homicide with excess of legitimate defense, since, in her opinion, Roxana should have defended herself to a certain limit and not abuse the power of self defense and commit murder.
However, neither of the two parties involved agrees with this sentence, because while the attacker’s family waited for the young woman to be charged with the crime of homicide, since, according to her defense, they have evidence that she was not a victim of sexual abuse, the girl’s lawyer will challenge the sentence, since Roxana was defending her life and in such situations the limit of legitimate defense cannot be determined.
Source: Okchicas
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