This month, after ceaseless work stitching in the textile factory, Kanhaiya Kumari, 19, raised the 5,000 rupees (about $89) needed to pay his mother’s surety.

His mother Vijaya Kumari, 48, was five months pregnant with Kanhaiya when she was arrested in 1993 in connection with the murder of a neighbor in India’s Aligarh district, according to CNN affiliate IBN…

He was released last year after spending seven years separated from his mother and immediately set about getting a job that would pay for his mother’s bail.