(CNN) The controversial retrial of a rape victim in El Salvador concluded Friday, a case that has drawn international attention because of the country's strict abortion laws and could see the young woman's sentence lengthened.

Evelyn Hernandez was a teenager when she was first accused of inducing an abortion and later convicted of aggravated murder, claims which she has repeatedly rejected.

In April 2016, Hernandez was found on the floor of her bathroom drenched in blood. She was rushed to a local emergency room in her hometown of El Carmen, roughly 40 kilometers (about 25 miles) east of the capital, by her mother and a neighbor.

Doctors who examined her saw signs of a delivery, but no baby. They reported her to the authorities, her defense team told CNN. When local officials arrived at her home five hours later, they found the newborn dead in a septic tank.

A year later, Hernandez was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing the child. Prosecutors at the time claimed she had induced an abortion and left the baby for dead.

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