May 23, 2023, 20:12 PM
May 23, 2023, 20:12 PM
The prosecutor’s office of the central State of Mexico withdrew the charges against a woman who had been sentenced to six years prison for killing her rapist, and this Tuesday she was acquitted of all charges.
Roxana Ruiz, 23, had been sentenced last week for killing a man who sexually assaulted her in the populous municipality of Nezahualcóyotl, a neighbor of the capital.
“I am grateful that I was acquitted of something that was not my fault, acknowledging my innocence, something they should have done from the beginning. They locked me up for nine months unfairly,” Ruiz told reporters after leaving the hearing.
The judge in charge of the case had been harshly criticized for having considered that the young woman incurred in an “excess of legitimate defense”.
Ruiz, who spent nine months in prison although since February 2022 he was able to continue his process in freedom, He said, however, that he continues to “fear” for his life and asks the court not to listen to arguments from his attacker’s family.
The man’s relatives have three days to file an appeal for disagreement with this resolution.
Regarding the aggression, which occurred in 2021, Ruiz has indicated that after having a beer with a friend in a bar, a man she met at the scene insisted on walking her home. Once there, she asked him to stay the night, claiming that she lived far from her.
But when she was resting, he sexually assaulted her, beat her and threatened to kill her, according to his testimony, in which he assures that when defending himself he suffocated him with a T-shirt. The next day she was arrested.
This case unleashed a series of accusations about the role of justice before the gender violence that hits the country.
Mexico, with 126 million inhabitants, registered 3,754 murders of women last yearof which 947 were classified as femicides, according to the government.
