Laos does not play. CNN reports that Samantha Orobator, a 20-year old Briton jailed last August for attempting to smuggle heroin into Laos has been sentenced to life in prison for the offense. Originally sentenced to death, that sentence was reduced when officials discovered she was pregnant. Orobator is currently five months pregnant and it remains unclear how she became pregnant while in prison. She claims she was not raped and that the father is not Laotian. A Lao government newspaper is reporting that Orobator impregnated herself with the sperm of another prisoner held in the same jail, but the veracity of that claim has yet to be confirmed. It is possible that Orobator could be extradited to Britain to serve out her sentence.
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