As the 14-year-old girl sat inside a cramped cell at the New Horizon Adult Correctional Centre, she said to her herself: "If only I had listened to my grandmother. If my father was alive, he would not make me end up in this situation."
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| The teenage girl who was locked up for one year after running away from home for two days. |
The teenager is not shy to admit that running away for two days to sleep with an older man was the wrong thing to do.
"It was peer pressure. Sometimes friends influence you to do things and I was influenced," the teenager told the Jamaica Observer. The child had left for school and never returned home after hanging out with friends in Spanish Town.
Neither she nor her grandmother could imagine that the act would land her in a maximum security adult penal facility for one year. Her life was not an easy one, as her father was shot dead during a robbery in Honduras when she was a mere infant. She also lives in a depressed community where most of her female role models bleach their skins and talk openly about their sexual exploits. It is not unusual to see teenaged mothers with their babies in tow. read more...
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