The reversal comes after protests erupted when a court in Mexico State agreed last week that 23-year-old Roxana Ruiz was raped in 2021, but was still guilty of homicide with "excessive use of legitimate defense" and ordered to pay $16,000 to her attacker's family.
By Cristina Sanchez Reyes Mexico City, May 19 (EFE).- A Mexican woman who earlier this week was sentenced to more than six years in prison for killing her rapist in an act of “excessive” self-defense told Efe in an interview that she has been punished with prison time for the act of resisting sexual assault. …
The woman killed a man when she was attacked and raped in 2021. A Mexico state court found her guilty of homicide and said that hitting the man in the head would have been enough to defend herself.