in Laos in the first place . Samantha Orobator was born in Nigeria . Her family sent her to London , England , to live with her aunt when she was 8 years old to escape the political strife back home . By many accounts , Samantha was a happy and popular child . She achieved good grades and excelled in biology , hoping to become a surgeon . `` A really nice child , who loved school , good friends , respected the staff , behaved herself and achieved good academic results , '' recalls school headmaster Serge Cefai . `` We 're extremely surprised , '' he says , `` We 've had some of her ex-friends get in touch with the school saying ` What do you know ? ' Well , we only know what the media has told us and what 's now coming out . And everybody is in the same boat . Samantha could n't be involved in drugs , could she ? '' Jane Orobator describes her daughter as quiet , petite and `` fragile . '' Her daughter never mentioned any boyfriends and did n't smoke or drink , she says
DUBLIN , Ireland -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Jane Orobator lives in a small house in Dublin , Ireland . She 's a full time psychology student at Trinity college and she is single-handedly raising 3 girls aged 9 to 14 . Their smiling faces are framed in photos on the walls at home -- the only ornaments in an otherwise sparsely decorated house . An emotional Jane Orabator said her daughter 's arrest made her world crumble like a pack of cards . But there is one family member missing from these photos : the oldest sister , Samantha , now 21 , in prison in Laos charged with smuggling heroin . `` My life , my world is crumbling like a pack of cards right before me , '' Jane Orobator told CNN in an emotional interview . `` Samantha has never given me any cause to worry . '' Over the course of a 90-minute interview with CNN , Orobator frequently broke down in tears . At one point , she collapsed to her knees and begged for her daughter 's release . But Jane Orobator is clearly baffled and mystified as to how her daughter ended up