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Colombias Supreme Court hands out 1st ever femicide conviction
Mar 12, 2015 posted by Alice Bradshaw-Smith
Colombias Supreme Court has ruled the countrys first ever case of convicted femicide, in an unprecedented decision set to please womens rights campaigners earlier this week.
The Supreme Court sentenced Alexander de Jesus Ortiz to 18 years in prison for the brutal murder of his wife, Sandra Patricia Correa, on the grounds that the killing was motivated by Correas gender.
This overturns a lower court ruling that the murder had been a crime committed through passion and jealousy.
This is not a love story but the crushing of a woman by a man who considered her to be his subordinate, the Court said.
Correa had been subject to numerous vicious beatings and nine stab wounds at the mercy of her husband before he eventually killed her in 2012.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/colombia-supreme-court-rules-first-ever-femicide-conviction/
niyad
(113,701 posts)brazil is following suit:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026357360
Judi Lynn
(160,656 posts)The last paragraph of your article was amazing:
President Rousseff has demonstrated a particular commitment to the women of the Brazil since taking office in 2011. In 2013, she signed legislation requiring all public hospitals to provide rape victims with certain treatment, including emergency contraception, and screening and treatment for STIs and HIV.
What are the chances we could expect to see this progress here in the next 10 years? Probably zip. We've got too many criminally insane right-wingers steering our ship of state.