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"We’re suffering a lot, I went after her in Pailón, but couldn’t find her. Besides, the boy she’s with is just wrong, he drinks and chews coca, he rides a motorbike here in the colony.... Everything! A disaster. Besides he’s a lazybones, he’s not made for work nor anything. Whoknows what they’ll be doing now. I want them to marry, of course,but here with us, not there like animals.And, you know, the father suffers a lot, and the mother even more, she’s crying all day long. The kids as well, that’s not the way to do it.She left because they say they don’t want to live like us... There in Pailón are living some of the ones who left. That’s why I went there, hoping to find her, but she wasn’t around. We think some friend of her boyfriend who also left as well is helping them."Abraham Bergen, 43. His daughter (16) escaped the colony 10 days ago with her boyfriend and their newborn baby born outside of marriage