translated from Spanish: Employee of the mayor of Independence was detained for aborting and leaving fetus in Pudahuel

In San Pablo Avenue, near the intersection with Sargento Aldea, in the commune of Pudahuel, was found a fetus of approximately 6 months by a passerby who saw a lump wrapped in paper of women’s clothes stained with blood. The subject informed Carabineros, who realized that one of the sheets of the newspaper had an adhesive that pointed to the subscriber of the same and whose identity corresponded to Gonzalo Durán, mayor of Independence. Carabineros went to the home and contacted R.M.S., a 27-year-old woman from the Dominican Republic, who worked almost a year ago as a domestic employee of the communal chief. After being consulted by the police regarding the situation, he recognized his involvement in the fact, having used pills that caused the abortion. He also noted that pregnancy would have been the product of a sexual abuse situation. In relation to the fact, the judge of the first Court of guarantee of Santiago requested the arrest of the accused, who was transferred in a first instance to the emergency maternity service to carry out a gynecological examination. The situation surprised the mayor of Independencia, Gonzalo Durán, who pointed out to the middle Emol that he did not know that the worker was pregnant, and therefore indicated that he does not know more details of the story, but regretted the situation and was concerned about the Young. It indicated that “in the detention control it was reported that there was an abuse situation a while back, who would have drugged her” and added that “she, with a little more information, could have practiced abortion legally, what happens is that it is an ext person Ranjera, who was probably frightened, without information and who apparently knew belatedly of her pregnancy. ” Duran also said that “she is a good person who surely was desperate, like many women who have to go through the same thing.” The young woman would finally have been released, but with the precautionary measure of national roots and it should be noted that she had her regularized immigration status and a current work contract.

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