A nightmare of prison in Peru. Michaella McCollum spent 3 years with vermin
Michaella was only 19 years old when, together with a friend, they were detained in Lima for an attempt to smuggle drugs worth $ 1.5 million. Flying from Madrid, they had as much as 11 kg of drugs in their suitcases. -I agreed to be a drug mule-recalls the 31-year-old influencer and mother of two children today. He does not expect what happened later. It’s still hard to forget her hell that she survived behind the bars of the Women’s Prison in Peru.
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She survived the hell of the prison in Peru
Michaella was sentenced to 3 years in prison for smuggling drugs. This is a gentle punishment, because drug smuggling girls go behind bars for up to 20 years, and the conditions in which they serve the punishment are difficult to imagine.
McCollum recalls nightmarish food and cockroaches crawling on the walls. « I remember how I spread all the rice to see which grains I could eat and which worms. At home it was said that I started a hunger strike, but it wasn’t like that » – recalls Michaella quoted by the Daily Mail. Her mother moved by her daughter’s fate stood six hours in the burning Peruvian sun to bring her food. « She brought a whole chicken, which I ate with my fingers, cockroaches climbed the table, and I just chased them away. At that time they didn’t even worry me, because hunger was so great » – he says.
The mother of two children admitted that she was a drug mule
Michaella spent three years in a prison for people with a high rigor near Lima. Today he admits that she would probably not stand anymore. « I have goose bumps when I talk about it. But then … it becomes normal. It’s amazing, what you can adapt to and how resistant you can be » – she confessed. She was prompted by the story of two girls who were recently detained for drug smuggling in Sri Lanka.
The 21-year-old Stewardess Charlotta Bella May was arrested at Sri Lanka with 46 kg of Kush synthetic drug, which is 25 times stronger than Fentanyl. 18-year-old Bella Culley was arrested at the airport in Georgia with 14 kg of marijuana. Both went behind prison bars in which they have similar conditions to those experienced by Michaella. However, if they are found guilty, they will spend up to 20 years behind their bars.
Influencer terrified by the history of young smugglers
« I couldn’t not sympathize with them, » says Michaella. « They are 19 and 21 years old. Whatever they did, it’s too young to get involved in something like that, and I know what they will go through. And their families. It’s the worst, what anyone can face »-said the 31-year-old, recalling her story.
In addition, Bella’s situation is much worse, because the girl admitted that she was pregnant. « As a mother, I can’t even imagine what it is like to give birth in such a place and potentially to have a child taken away and taken care of someone, » says Michaella with concern.
Men remain unpunished
The influencer does not question the guilt of both women, but because she has gone the same, she sympathizes with Bella and Charlottt. « It’s easy to look at such girls and think » how could you be so stupid? « , But I look at myself and think exactly the same, » she confessed. « I do not know the details of the circumstances, but I know that of all the women I met and who dealt with drug smuggling, only about 10 percent did it for business purposes, knowing the risk and accepting them » – she added.
Michaella also pointed out that there are men behind the smuggling of drugs who remain unpunished. « Men upstairs are rarely caught. Men who pulled all the strings in my case have never been held responsible, » he says bitterly. « When you are 19 and 20, you are so hopelessly naive. You don’t even know that such bad things are happening in the world, not to mention that it can happen to you » – she added.
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Michaella McColl was convicted of drug smuggling in Peru.
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The British spent three years in prison near Lima.
