Mercedes Corby says people should leave Schapelle Corby alone, as she is scared to go outside before her release from parole
SCHAPELLE Corby’s parole officers say the Australian has made a desperate plea for help ahead of her release.
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SCHAPELLE Corby’s parole officers last night visited her at her Kuta home during which she told them she was sick and afraid and asked them to help her in the lead up to her parole ending.
When three officers arrived at the home, Corby was in her room. When she came out she was covering her face with a sarong.
The head of Corrections at Bali Law and Human Rights Ministry, Surung Pasaribu, and two parole board officers visited Corby to check on her welfare and to calm her down.
She pleaded with them to help her, especially as she now feels besieged by media as her May 27 release date and deportation home approaches.
Mr Pasaribu last night told News Corporation that when he asked Corby how she was coping, the 39-year-old told him: “I am very afraid. I am sick”.
“I asked, how are you? I am sick. she said,”
Mr Pasaribu said that Corby is fearful.
“The point of what she said is, I already undergo guidance until the end. Please help me. Don’t make me scared. She is afraid. She doesn’t know who is chasing her, who will see her, who will interview her.
“So we should accomodate her complaint. And our responsibility, Bali law and Human Rights Ministry, Correctional division, and parole board, is to supervise her until she finishes her parole,” Mr Pasaribu said.
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Earlier in the day Corby’s sister Mercedes and her former husband Wayan Widyartha had met Mr Pasaribu and parole officials at the Ministry to discuss her impending release. Corby did not attend the meeting.
“So, Corby’s sister told us that Corby feels scare to go out from the house, stressed. So our parole officers should monitor her. And based on her, she is very afraid to meet people,” Mr Pasaribu saidd.
“Maybe doctors know more but she looked afraid, we already saw.
“So, I already monitored our parole board home visit, and apparently that’s her condition. I feel very sorry for that. They said like, where is our human rights, something like that. We have responded to a complaint from our parole client with positive thinking,” he said.
Mr Pasaribu said it was their responsibility to accomodate her complaint.
“I hope she will be well. The request from her was please note my human rights,” he said.
Mercedes and her young son were present at the meeting which took place on a small verandah area at the home.
“She was sleeping in her room. Her sister called her and said that parole officers want to meet you. Corby looked afraid when coming, wearing a sarong and covering her mouth,” Mr Pasaribu said.
He said Corby had intermittently taken the sarong down from her face while talking to them but then covered up again.
Mr Pasaribu said Corby was stressed about freedom after so long.
“I think she wavered. Usually people who are going free waver. Our duty is how to make her more calm.
“I am afraid to meet another people, that’s what she said.
“She said someone attach camera in her house from outside. thats making her afraid,” he said.
Mr Pasaribu said Mercedes had asked if it was possible, on May 27, for her not to attend the Parole Board office to sign her parole for the last time but go immediately to the Immigration office and the airport.
He said no plans for the day of her release had been finalised but it was possible they would dispense with the need to go to the parole board.
Earlier in the day Mercedes pleaded with the media to give her sister some privacy and breathing space as her release edges closer.
“Please give her some privacy, stop (being) in front of the house, just leave her alone please,” Mercedes said after the meetings.
She said her sister would be feeling better if the media was not constantly camped out the front of her house.
Asked how Schapelle was coping Mercedes said: “Better if you would leave her alone.”
And asked if she was sick, Mercedes said: “Sick of the media, sick of you stalking her.”
Corby’s 15-year drug trafficking sentence expires on May 27.
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