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Judge Urges Mediation in 'Honor Killing' Custody Case
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Sep 24, 2009 01:26am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | DAN HARRIS, MARIECAR FRIAS and AYANA HARRY |
| News Date | Thursday, September 3, 2009 07:25:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A Florida judge declined today to decide whether a 17-year-old girl should be sent home to her Muslim parents in Ohio or allowed to stay in Florida with a couple of Christian pastors.
Circuit Judge Daniel Dawson instead urged the lawyers, the girl, her parents and the pastors to settle the custody issue in mediation.
In the meantime, Fathima Rifqa Bary was ordered to remain under the jurisdiction of Florida's Department of Children and Families.
The teenager, who goes by the name of Rifqa, has told Florida authorities that she fled her home in July because she had secretly converted to Christianity and that her father was bound by his Muslim faith kill her for leaving Islam. |
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