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Mother seeks paramilitary help to get kids |
A SECOND Melbourne woman is planning to snatch her children back from overseas.
The boys were abducted by her ex-husband and the woman is now
negotiating for an international paramilitary team to bring them home.
Rita's two sons, Malik, 9, and Adam, 7, are living in an Islamic country in the Middle East.
Details on the plan to abduct the children back have emerged just days
after the Herald Sun revealed that another Victorian woman had snatched
her child back from a Greek island.
Diane Livingstone was reunited with her abducted child Theo after
paying recovery agents (NAME WITHELD) about $50,000 to help her.
That recovery was co-ordinated by child support organisation Hug Ur Kids, which is also assisting with Rita's plan.
Yesterday Rita, who preferred not to reveal her surname, said: "I will
go to any lengths to get them back. I will do whatever it takes."
Rita's children were taken by her husband Kamel after a family holiday in his homeland.
In 1997, Rita and Kamel left the children with Kamel's mother on the
understanding they would all meet in Australia two weeks later.
The children never arrived and Kamel left Rita alone in Australia.
She spent a few days with the children over the next two years in the
Middle Eastern country but in October 1999 she said goodbye to them for
the last time.
"I said to them we will be together," Rita said.
"It was difficult - I told them I raised them and I will never forget them.
"I said to them, 'Make sure you ask daddy to bring you back to Australia'."
Rita said she was trying to raise the $50,000 needed to organise the snatch-back while
the West Australian-based Hug Ur Kids had established a fighting fund for her.
Hug Ur Kids' Geoff Day said he was negotiating with the head of
(NAME WITHELD) over the forced recovery of Rita's children.
"They say they have some useful contacts in the country," Mr Day said.
"He is willing to go in and we're talking about a month or two planning."
Mr Day said he knew of 10 cases in the past 12 months where former
military experts were used to bring back Australian children from
overseas.
They included:
A THREE-year-old New South Wales boy snatched back from a street in
Morocco after being abducted by his father. After the recovery, mother
and child took a boat to a nearby country and flew back to Australia.
Brisbane girl taken from a street in Cairo after being taken overseas by her mother.
A BROTHER and sister aged between five and 10 from the east coast of
Australia brought back from Kuala Lumpur after being abducted overseas
by their father.
Recovery agent Keith Schafferius from International Detection Services
said he was snatching back two to three Australian children from
overseas every year.
"About one child is being taken per week out of Australia," Mr Schafferius said.
"It's fairly constant."
Source: The Heraldsun Newspaper
By NICK PAPPS
05th October 2002
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