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"When the child cries or asks for food or water, we were told to take a cane and beat them so that they could go and eat in heaven," Salema explains. "So I thought about it and I said I cannot go on with this situation, I can't eat while my child is starving. I told myself, if I feel this bad when I fast, how about my child?"