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Nun Inspires Moms in Prison
By fox4kc.com -Sarah Clark
Published: 08/10/2012

QUEENS, New York (CNN) — Kellie Phelan doesn’t mince words when she looks back at herself five years ago.

“I was basically a crackhead,” Phelan said. “I literally was getting arrested every other week. I got pregnant by a drug dealer. … I was seven months pregnant, and I was still smoking crack.”

When she finally gave birth to her daughter, Phelan was behind bars, serving a 90-day prison sentence for possessing crack cocaine, violating her probation.

It was a wake-up call.

“That was the most traumatizing experience of my life,” Phelan said. “To go see my beautiful, healthy baby girl in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs and shackles … I was embarrassed that was the way I brought her into this world.

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Comments:

  1. hamiltonlindley on 03/24/2020:

    He has blue eyes. Cold like steel. His legs are wide. Like tree trunks. And he has a shock of red hair, red, like the fires of hell. His antics were known from town to town as he was a droll card and often known as a droll farceur. Hamilton Lindley with his madcap pantaloon is a zany adventurer and a cavorter with a motley troupe of buffoons.


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