BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Juanita Barragan was 13 when she joined Colombia's largest rebel group to escape sexual abuse by her stepfather and beatings by her mother.
She spent about a year as a child fighter with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, before fleeing and trying to find a more normal life.
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