The drug 'children' in Hong Kong prison
Zoila Lecarnaque Saavedra stamped his fate when he agreed to transfer a package from Peru to Hong Kong, causing her to go to prison for more than 8 years.
25% of prisoners in Hong Kong are women, most of whom are poor foreigners who are deceived or forced to transport drugs.
Her husband, the breadwinner of the family in Lima, the capital of Peru, then left and Saavedra needed eye surgery.
They often seek people who are in precarious economic state, Saavedra said.
People like Saavedra are called drugs.
Zoila Lecarnaque Saavedra walked in Jordan, Hong Kong on May 9.
The woman has a modest height, a facial face full of austere, wants to warn others not to fall into the situation like her.
I think about hurting for my family, my children, my mother, because they are the people who feel worse than me, that's why I was heartbroken, she cried and said.
Customs staff found two jackets inside Saavedra's suitcase filled with condoms, inside were 500 grams of liquid cocaine.
The mastermind is still free, not arrested, I don't know why, she said.
Saavedra's story is so familiar in female prison in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong, a bustling air and maritime transfer point in Asia, has long become a global center for trading both legal and illegal.
Before the pandemic, Hong Kong Airport is one of the bustling locations, with the best connection system in the world.
Statistics show that 25% of 8,434 people in Hong Kong last year were women, the highest rate globally, according to the World Prison Brief database.
Saavedra talked to Wotherspoon's priest in his office in Jordan on May 9.
John Wotherspoon, 75 years old, in prison, has been in contact with drug smugglers for decades.
Wotherspoon regularly travels to Latin American countries, trying to help the families of those who have been arrested, even confronted with the human trafficking group.
He attended many drug trial cases in the Hong Kong court, donated to the convicted person, helping to maintain the website naming some of the people he thought was should be in prison, based on the testimony of Pham.
The drug is an easy target for police and prosecutors in Hong Kong, where early pleading can reduce 1/3 of the time of imprisonment.
In 2016, Caterina, a citizen of Venezuela, was sentenced to 25 years in prison after not convincing the jury that he was forced to transport drugs.
They treat me like trash, I am afraid they will kill me, the 36 -year -old woman in prison in Hong Kong, said.
She was pregnant before being kidnapped and gave birth to her son in prison.
I have worked for many years with vulnerable people, but her case made me always pondered, Patricia Ho, a lawyer helped Caterina appeal.
Lawyer Ho said one of the biggest issues of the defense team, Hong Kong, admitted to human trafficking but there was no specific ban.
She was forced to commit crimes in the form of force or forced, to me, that was completely suitable for human trafficking, lawyer Ho said.
Some people know that their items will have to transport but there is no other way but to accept risks because of the circumstances.
Marcia Sousa's Facebook page is like every Brazilian youth, full of selfie showing off her new braided hair or party with friends on the beach.
In court, Sousa declared that he was from a poor family in northern Brazil, his mother had to be dialysis, and she was pregnant but her father had abandoned.
During the sentence, Judge Audrey Campbell-Moffat said that the 25-year-old girl had many extenuating circumstances such as early pleading guilty, cooperating in the prison's report, showing that she was a good mother to take care of her children.
I tried my best to forgive the judge.
In the first few years, Sousa was allowed to take care of her son in prison.
He cried all the time, stopped eating, Sousa recounted the situation for the first few weeks after the mother and daughter had to break up.
But that future was pushed further when the prosecutor in July appealed successfully on the grounds that the sentence was too light.
Saavedra arrived at the airport in Lima, Peru, June 4.
Covid-19 attacks the world aviation industry, causing the number of La children to drop sharply.
But when the pandemic is calm, the drugs will certainly return, meaning that many women like Saavedra will be smuggled by smuggling and drug addicts.
Last month, Saavedra was expelled from Hong Kong.
I cried for nearly 9 years and I went home, she said.
Spanish police seized 6 unmanned ships capable of transporting large amounts of drugs originated from Morocco.
The Mexican army captured Caro Quintero, a drug boss on the list of 10 fugitists who were wanted by the FBI most wanted for murdering an agent.
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