Corby family fears for Schapelle's sanity

Whether one think's Schapelle Corby is guilty or not, surely it's time for compassion. She has now spent over five years in an Indonesian jail.

Yes, there are many people rotting in jails around the world in appalling conditions, but if we can only help one at a time, is it not better than none?

The following is a report published by The Daily Telegraph in Australia.

Corby family fears for Schapelle's sanity after so long in jail
By Joe Hildebrand From: The Daily Telegraph July 22, 2009 10:36PM

Corby moved as health worsens

DRUG smuggler Schapelle Corby is so traumatised by her time in jail that she has lost all touch with reality and sometimes even thinks she can walk out any time.

Her condition has so shocked her family that they are begging the Australian Government to send a psychiatrist to Bali to assess her and try to bring her back home for medical care.

Corby's uncle Shaun Hatton has approached broadcaster Alan Jones to put pressure on the Government, while sister Mercedes is understood to be making requests via the official channels.

Mr Hatton said that when he visited Corby last month in a Bali hospital she sat on the floor for an hour and a half, saying nothing and holding a child's toy.
"She goes in and out of lucidity - she's not lucid," he said.
"At one stage she sat on the floor with my daughter's stuffed frog that plays tunes and she was there holding it for 90 minutes without moving."

Mr Hatton said he visited Corby for four or five hours a day for the three days he was there and did not see a doctor the entire time.
She would slip into delusional states in which she would think she could just walk out of custody.
"She thinks she can hop up and go, she'd just start to get ready. She'd change her clothes and say 'let's go'," he said.
"And we'd have to say, 'No Schapelle, you can't'."

Mr Hatton, a Darwin real estate agent, said Corby still maintained her innocence and lived in hope that new evidence would emerge.
"Every day she thinks the nightmare's going to finish. Now she's not thinking lucidly at all," he said.
"She will not admit guilt because she's not guilty."

Mr Hatton said she was in desperate need of medical assessment and care from Australia.
"She's just got to be brought back," he said.

Mr Hatton said she shared a cell with nine others at Kerobokan jail, where she has been returned to serve out her 20-year sentence.

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