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Ohio prepares for runaway teen's return

COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI) -- The Internet and phone use of a teenage girl who claimed her Muslim father wanted to kill her must be monitored when she returns to Ohio, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Fatima Rifqa Bary fled to Florida after meeting an evangelical Christian couple online. She said her father had threatened her because she converted.

Bary, 17, has been living in foster care in Florida and will do so when she returns to Ohio, at least for the short term. Both sides agreed Tuesday to continue a dependency hearing in 30 days.

The teen is to be a ward of Franklin County Children's Services when she returns. The agency is to monitor her use of the Internet and phone, the judge said.

Authorities say they have found no evidence the teenager's life was in danger. Her return from Florida was delayed by uncertainty about her immigration status.

Copyright 2009 by United Press International

This news arrived on: 10/27/2009

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10-29-2009 13:05

wrote:

They are going to sweeten up the Child Protective services, take the girl back to their point of origin and kill her there. They are Muslim, it is part of their religion.

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10-29-2009 00:22

bj wrote:

Danger

They are going to sweeten up the Child Protective services, take the girl back to their point of origin and kill her there. They are Muslim, it is part of their religion.

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10-28-2009 13:52

dskadsheim@blomand.net wrote:

Convert's fear of father

Well, if you were her father, and you planned to kill her when you got ahold of her, as your Muslim faith requires you to do to a wife or child of a Muslim who forsakes the faith, would you tell the authorities that you planned to kill her? It is possible that the girl has other motives also, but once she is dead, as many other Christian converts from the Muslim faith have died in these United States, how do you undo your aiding and abetting of murder?

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10-28-2009 13:49

wrote:

Lets pray that "culture" does not play its self out in this practice that should have been left in the "OLD COUNTRY".

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