Brittany, who has four kids, shared her story with Channel 9’s new documentary series, Australia Behind Bars, which premiered on Thursday.She is currently three months into a three-and-a-half year sentence at Dillwynia Correctional Centre in Sydney’s northwest, and told the program she had been an “unwilling” driver during an abduction.Her children are now being cared for by their father, and Brittany opened up about the harsh reality of missing out on seeing them grow up.“I don’t get to bond with them,” he tearful mum said on-air.“I miss all that. I’m missing it all.“I never thought I would end up in here.”Brittany, who won’t be eligible for parole for more than a year, revealed her first child was born when she was just 14, and said her child’s arrival helped her avoid jail at the time.“It was hard. I lost a lot of my teenage years, but I suppose it was probably a good thing. I am in jail now, so I hate to see where I would have been if I hadn’t had her,” she said.She added that her sentence had been “a lot for (the kids) to take in”, and that they had not yet come to visit her.“They know I’m in here. It isn’t something I have hidden from the kids,” she said.“I don’t want my kids to think I am somewhere where I can come home to them. “My dad, my parents, think it is better that my kids don’t see me in here. It’s not a good place for kids to come.”Brittany said her ice addiction had been her downfall.“My drug of choice was ice and it was definitely that circle of friends that I was hanging around because of the ice scene that’s where you know, everything sort of just went to shit,” she said.“I found myself to be the unwilling driver of a kidnapping. It went a bit out of control.“If I had of known what was going to happen that night, I wouldn’t have given anyone a lift.“My heart breaks for the victim. It does.”While on bail, Brittany said she had started to turn her life around, but that it was “just too late” to avoid prison.As a result, she now has to miss out on her children’s major milestones.“I haven’t even picked him (her son) up from school yet,“ an emotional Brittany revealed.“He goes to kindergarten next year and I won’t be there for his first day.”Hosted by Melissa Doyle, Australia Behind Bars sheds light on what life is really like in our prison system, telling the stories of both inmates and staff members.
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