Pity the poor child.
Lori Berenson, a U.S. citizen serving a 20-year sentence in Peru for aidingGreat. One would hope she's barred from re-entering this country but somehow I suspect she'll be back and on the lecture and book circuit before long. She'll probably wind up as a blogger at the Huffington Post or a special adviser to the Obama administration.leftist guerrillasterrorists, arrived in Lima on Friday after years in remote prisons to get health care during a complicated pregnancy.
Berenson, 39, is five months pregnant. Authorities worried about her age and a back problem transferred her from a prison in Cajamarca, in the north, to one in Peru's capital, where she will stay until her baby is born.
Surrounded by police and reporters, Berenson was shuffled into a justice department building in the city's center, where officials said she will undergo a health examination before being moved to the Santa Monica women's prison.
"She has come from Cajamarca because she has health problems and because of her pregnancy," a government official said.
Berenson has been in jail for more than 13 years, many of them high in the Andes mountains.
She was arrested in 1995 on charges of being a leader of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, or MRTA, a leftist insurgency that was active in Peru in the 1980s and 1990s.
A military judge jailed her for life, but under pressure from the United States, a civilian court retried her and sentenced her to 20 years. She could be paroled next year.
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