Supporters of a lady who was sentenced to six years for strangling her rapist with a T-shirt name for 'justice'

• A girl in Mexico was sentenced to 6 years after she strangled her rapist.
• Roxana Ruiz, 23, was additionally ordered to pay over $16,000 to the household of the person who raped her, AP reviews. 
• Supporters of Ruiz gathered outdoors the courtroom and chanted, “Justice!” say reviews.

A younger girl in Mexico has been sentenced to 6 years in jail for killing the person who raped her.

The case has led to a public outcry, and her supporters gathered outdoors the courtroom carrying protest indicators and chanting “Justice!”

Roxana Ruiz’s authorized protection has known as the sentencing “discriminatory,” per AP. Her lawyer Ángel Carrera stated, “It is sending the message to ladies that the regulation says you may defend your self, however solely to some extent.”

On Monday, a courtroom dominated Ruiz, 23, was responsible of murder with “extreme use of legit protection,” though it concluded she had been raped within the assault in 2021.

It was additionally dominated that Ruiz, who has a son aged 4, should pay over $16,000 to the household of the person who raped her, AP reviews. 

 The evening that modified Ruiz’s life started when she met a person who she vaguely knew whereas out with a good friend in Nezahualcoyotl – a municipality with an ongoing gender alert for femicides and one other one for pressured disappearances of girls, AP reported. He provided to stroll her dwelling, which she agreed to. 

Once they arrived, the person requested if he might keep over as he was removed from dwelling. She stated agreed if he slept on a mattress on the ground. 

When she fell asleep, he hit her, tore her garments off, and raped her. He stated he was going to kill her, her lawyer stated, per AP.

She fought again and, whereas he was distracted by one in every of her blows, she grabbed a T-shirt and strangled him with it, the courtroom heard, in accordance with reviews.

“I put it on his neck we began struggling once more. That was after we fell, and I did not let go of the shirt due to the concern I had,” she informed Puerto Vallarta Information in 2022.

In a panic, she then dragged his physique out into the road, and passing police arrested her.

Though she informed the police that she had been raped, she was refused a forensic examination, and an officer stated that she in all probability wished intercourse, Ruiz’s lawyer stated.

“I remorse what I did, but when I hadn’t finished it, I might be useless immediately,” Ruiz informed AP in a 2022 interview.

Ruiz stays free pending an attraction.