Convicted Australian drug smuggler Shapelle Corby is still into the early stages of her 20 year term in an Indonesian prison. It must be hell for her. Now, I do not know the full details of her case except that there is alot of doubt as to her guilt. Many say, and much evidence is there to prove, that she is completely innocent of the charges and that she was set-up by unscrupulous baggage handlers. Much of this though was ignored by the court in Indonesia and she was found guilty and sentenced to a long jail term there. I tend to believe she was set-up as well; the Indonesian  system of justice is not a fair one and highly prejudiced against Australians. Personally I wonder why many people even go there, even if Bali is a cheap holiday for Australians.

Anyway, the Sydney Daily Telegraph has reported that Shapelle is claiming to be entitled to have a baby whilst a prisoner and interestingly she has a lot of supporters in this. She claims she will be too old to have a child when she is eventually set free.  Sorry, but I am having trouble with this.

For a start she is in a cell with four other females; who is going to father this baby and, more to the point, what about the actual ‘logistics’ of the conception?.

Indonesian prisons are not known for their standards of comfort and prisoners there suffer a basic denial of human rights. Disease and drugs abound, violence and abject discomfort are the norm and yet Ms Corby wants to bring a baby into all of this?. I feel great sympathy for her and her plight but common sense surely must prevail here. An Indonesian prison is no place at all for a tiny baby, in fact I don’t believe that babies and prisons go together at all.

I understand she must be bored out of her mind in that hell hole but a baby deserves the best a mother, and father, can give him or her. A start to life in a filthy Indonesian prison cell is not the best start in life at all.