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Guatemalan sex slavery victims to receive more than $1m in historic trial
Source: Associated Press
Guatemalan sex slavery victims to receive more than $1m in historic trial
AP in Guatemala City
Wednesday 2 March 2016 21.14 GMT
A retired army officer and a former paramilitary must pay more than $1m in damages to victims of sexual enslavement during the country’s civil war, a Guatemalan court ruled Wednesday.
The tribunal ordered former second Lt Esteelmer Reyes Girón to pay about $65,000 and Heriberto Valdez about $32,500 to each of the 11 victims who participated in their criminal trial.
Defense lawyers said the two do not have the money to pay such amounts.
At trial, victims testified that they were raped and forced to cook and wash for soldiers during six months in 1982-83. They had gone to the Sepur Zarco base in northern Guatemala to ask about their husbands, who had disappeared when the military moved into the area.
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AP in Guatemala City
Wednesday 2 March 2016 21.14 GMT
A retired army officer and a former paramilitary must pay more than $1m in damages to victims of sexual enslavement during the country’s civil war, a Guatemalan court ruled Wednesday.
The tribunal ordered former second Lt Esteelmer Reyes Girón to pay about $65,000 and Heriberto Valdez about $32,500 to each of the 11 victims who participated in their criminal trial.
Defense lawyers said the two do not have the money to pay such amounts.
At trial, victims testified that they were raped and forced to cook and wash for soldiers during six months in 1982-83. They had gone to the Sepur Zarco base in northern Guatemala to ask about their husbands, who had disappeared when the military moved into the area.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/02/guatemala-court-awards-sex-slavery-victims-million-damages