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Detention toddler released
By Sharon Mathieson
A THREE-year-old girl who was born in an immigration detention centre has been freed for the first time in her life tonight. Naomi Leong, who was born at Villawood detention centre in Sydney on May 5, 2002, and her Malaysian mother Virginia have been granted bridging visas to allow them to live in the community.
Ms Leong had been put in immigration detention after allegedly being caught with a false passport in 2001 when she was two months pregnant.
The Leongs' plight became public when psychiatrist Dr Michael Dudley revealed Naomi had been banging her head against a wall and was often mute and unresponsive.
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Detention toddler released
By Sharon Mathieson
A THREE-year-old girl who was born in an immigration detention centre has been freed for the first time in her life tonight. Naomi Leong, who was born at Villawood detention centre in Sydney on May 5, 2002, and her Malaysian mother Virginia have been granted bridging visas to allow them to live in the community.
Ms Leong had been put in immigration detention after allegedly being caught with a false passport in 2001 when she was two months pregnant.
The Leongs' plight became public when psychiatrist Dr Michael Dudley revealed Naomi had been banging her head against a wall and was often mute and unresponsive.
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