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OUR CHILD IS INNOCENT

IT WAS meant to be the adventure of a lifetime – travelling to an exotic country, living and working there and meeting new and interesting people. Ashley

Oosthuizen, who’d just turned 19, had matriculated with several distinctions from Hoërskool Outeniqua in George and planned to teach English to Thai children.

Her dream came true – but after falling for an older American man she ended up being sentenced to life in prison and is now sharing a cell with more than 60 convicts.

Ashley’s world collapsed in August last year when a Thai court convicted her of drug possession and international drug trafficking after she signed for a

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