Sunday, July 6, 2014

Sudanese Christian Mom Fears Baby Disabled After Giving Birth in Chains

The woman who was sentenced to death in Sudan for her Christian faith says she fears her newborn baby is physically disabled because her legs were chained while she was in labor. - Daily Signal

“Something has happened to the baby,” Meriam Ibrahim Ishag, now out of prison, told The Guardian newspaper in her first interview since giving birth to a daughter while imprisoned. She added:
I gave birth chained. Not cuffs – but chains on my legs. I couldn’t open my legs so the women had to lift me off the table. I wasn’t lying on the table.
The Khartoum Court of Appeals canceled the 27-year-old Sudanese mother’s death sentence and ordered the charges against her dropped. Now, Ishag is “temporarily detained” in Sudan with her family.