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By REGINE CABATO | The Washington Post | Published: April 10, 2021 MANILA, Philippines Rosemarie Santiago was four months pregnant when she walked into prison. She left more than a year later as a mother who had spent just one day with her child. She was taken to a Manila hospital to give birth to her son Jericho. The next day her siblings claimed him, and she returned behind bars. She would not see him for another nine months. When I came back, he was so thin, said Santiago, who was arrested in 2018 on drug charges. I kept thinking about what could have happened if I had not been arrested.
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