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Jenny was 17 years old when she was arrested in December 2020 for a drug-related offense in the Philippines. A mother to a five-year old child, Jenny endured five months in an adult detention facility before she was finally turned-over to a juvenile detention facility. Like Jenny, Anna was still a breastfeeding teenage mother when she too was turned over to the same facility in 2019 for resistance and disobedience. She was forced to leave her infant behind.
Jenny tenía 17 años cuando fue detenida en diciembre de 2020 por un delito relacionado con drogas en Filipinas. Era madre de un niño de cinco años y pasó cinco meses en un centro de detención de adultos antes de ser entregada finalmente a un centro de detención de menores. Al igual que Jenny, Anna aún era una madre adolescente lactante cuando también fue entregada al mismo centro en 2019 por resistencia y desobediencia. Se vio obligada a dejar atrás a su bebé.
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