A British national charged with possession of 680 grammes of heroin has finally revealed to police she impregnated herself with the sperm of another prisoner also being held in Phontong prison. Said Vientianetimes newspaper today. Sorry, I could not read the full news. If you have more info, please share.
I often think it's a shame that more good fiction doesn't come out of Laos, obviously some are very skillfull at writing it. I liked the imaculate conception better but this will do. Of course all bets are off once she gets on the airplain.
The best way Lao people can do is to fight them back, those who are good at English, I suggest you to write and defend Laos. We are just lack of news to fight back, and when they don't get the right information, they tend to make up their own story, so that their news can be sold.
A British national charged with possession of 680 grammes of heroin has finally revealed to police she impregnated herself with the sperm of another prisoner also being held in Phontong prison.
Police told Vientiane Times yesterday they believed the pregnancy of Samantha Orobator, 20, had been carefully planned to avoid the death penalty, which is handed down to those found in possession of more than 500 grammes of heroin.
According to the police, Samantha Orobator sincerely told the Lao authorities she conspired with another prisoner to secretly obtain his sperm, which she then inserted into her vagina.
The method she described was one of the possibilities explained by Associate Professor Dr Bouavanh Sengsathit, Director of the National Mother and Child Health Hospital .
He told Vientiane Times on May 21 a woman could become pregnant by inserting sperm into her vagina. This could be done by herself without the involvement of a man. A woman who wants to conceive must know exactly the right time to introduce the sperm to improve her chances of success.
Ms Orobator's pregnancy has attracted a great deal of attention in the foreign press, with reports circulating that she had been raped by a prison guard. However, both she and her mother have stated several times she was not raped by a prison guard.
The Lao authorities have made a humanitarian gesture in the case of Ms Orobator by giving her good treatment while in prison, and allowing her mother to visit.
After visiting her daughter in prison on May 19, Ms Jane Orobator told Vientiane Times Samantha was looking well and had no problems.
She expressed gratitude to the Lao authorities for allowing her to visit her daughter.
She said after seeing Samantha her initial fears about Lao justice and the associated authorities had been allayed.
The situation she found in Laos was different from the circumstances she had read about on the Internet in the UK .
Samantha Orobator was arrested after 680 grammes of heroin were found in her possession at Wattay International Airport on August 5, 2008. The heroin was hidden in 68 tubes around her body as she was on her way to Sydney , Australia .
She had been a medical student at a British university.
Her case was originally scheduled for trial at the beginning of May, but Lao authorities postponed the trial as they needed more time to clarify the circumstances surrounding Ms Orobator's pregnancy. They needed to be sure of the facts to ensure the trial was fair and justice was done.
The police said all the facts about her pregnancy and the full details of Ms Orobator's case were in the hands of the prosecutor and would be forwarded to the court for trial according to Lao law.
Ms Orobator was born in Nigeria but now lives in the UK and has British citizenship. She will not receive the death penalty because of her pregnancy, even if she is found guilty.
A Briton accused of drug smuggling in Laos reportedly became pregnant to avoid the death penalty.
Samantha Orobator, 20, of south London, has been in a Lao jail since last August after she was allegedly caught with 1.5lb (680g) of heroin at Wattay airport in the capital Vientiane.
Police told a Lao newspaper that Orobator impregnated herself by another prisoner in an apparent effort to escape a death sentence.
It was initially reported she could face the death penalty if found guilty but it later emerged Lao law forbids the execution of pregnant prisoners.
It is not known who the father of Orobator's child is. Her mother, Jane, said her daughter was not raped and the father of the child was not a Lao prison official.
Authorities in Laos have reportedly postponed her trial while they attempt to solve the mystery of how she fell pregnant in prison.
Last month Foreign Secretary David Miliband signed a prisoner transfer agreement with the government of Laos meaning any potential sentence could be served in the UK.
