Roxana Ruiz: Girl convicted of murdering her rapist

“The price of not being raped and killed here is jail.” The sentence of 23-year-old Roxana Ruiz to six years and two months in prison for extreme self-defense for killing the man who raped her and threatened her with death in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl has become a case in Mexico. The woman was defending herself against the man who raped her. However, the court found him guilty and fined him 280,000 pesos. The case, which has become emblematic of the powerful contradictions of the Mexican system, sparks controversy and controversy, above all over the role of justice in tackling gender-based violence, a scourge in a country where nearly eleven women have been murdered. on average one day.

“He threatened to kill me. It was my life or his life,” he said in an interview with. El Pais the most severely punished girl. Alongside a group of supporters who helped her during the trial, Roxana Ruiz thanked, in a broken voice, the many supporters who showed solidarity with her during these hours after her conviction. But the final word has not yet been spoken. In fact, Roxana Ruiz won’t have to go to jail until the sentence has passed all trial stages. His lawyers are vowing to fight to prevent his client, the french fries salesman, who is a 14-year-old mother and has been a victim of violence since childhood, from being imprisoned again after nine months in prison.

Mexican women’s rights advocacy associations sided with Roxana Ruiz, recalling national data for 2022, and in twelve months, 3,754 women were killed an average of eleven times a day. Only one third of these cases, 947 (33.7%) were classified as femicide. Another 2,802 people were classified as voluntary homicide. The Roxana Ruiz episode, in particular, took place in the country with the highest number of femicides: 138 in 2022.

Source: Today IT

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