Hermaphrodite accused of breaking gay marriage law released
A Paraguayan couple jailed on suspicion of having a same-sex wedding was freed after a doctor determined that the groom is a hermaphrodite.
Prosecutor Jose Planas ordered the couple jailed after their civil wedding on Friday, when the priest scheduled to perform the religious ceremony the following day said he received a call saying the groom, Jesus Alejandro Martinez, was actually a woman.
Same-sex marriages are illegal in Paraguay. Planas had threatened Martinez with five years in prison for falsification of documents.
The couple’s lawyer, Jorge Cantero, says a doctor who inspected Mr Martinez ruled he is a hermaphrodite, with atrophied female genitals and well-developed male genitals.
