SEPARATED at BIRTHmultimedia videoTrailer. full video coming soon"I can’t really forget that day, a lady from the social service came in and said firmly “Madame today we have come to take the babyâ€.
It was the most difficult. Even more difficult than entering prison being pregnant. To be separated from your child when you are still alive.
It was as if I was dead and the baby had no mother."
Cecile, 37, does not believe she should have given birth in prison. But delivering her daughter in a jail cell in unsanitary conditions with no supplies or medical care is precisely what she did inside a prison in western Cameroon.
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