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Interesting twist to a case I have been following:
Samantha Orobator, 20, was jailed last August at the airport in the
Lao capital, Vientiane, and charged with carrying about half a kilogram
of heroin.She is more than five months pregnant, and enters her third trimester on Saturday.
The circumstances under which Orobator became pregnant in prison remain unclear.
She told her mother she was not raped in prison and that the father is not a Lao prison official.
A newspaper run by the Lao government reported Orobator as saying she
impregnated herself with the sperm of another prisoner being held in
the same jail.
A spokeswoman for legal aid charity Reprieve spokeswoman said the charity did not know if the newspaper report was true.
"We haven't seen her to confirm this, but are keen that this issue --
which is irrelevant to the case -- does not delay or affect the trial,"
Katherine O'Shea told CNN via e-mail. (Source)
