Woman Jailed For Killing Man Who Raped Her With ‘Excessive’ Force

A young woman in Mexico has been jailed for six years for killing a man who assaulted and raped her at her home two years ago.

The court acknowledged that the woman, named only as Roxana Ruiz, acted in self-defence when she killed her attacker in 2021, but said she used excessive force

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The woman, 23, first knocked the man unconscious, then strangled him, and finally tried to dismember his body.

She kept the body for at least 20 hours before putting it in a plastic bag on the street.