Sarah Saga, the American woman who was kidnapped as a child, brought to Saudi Arabia and forced to remain in the kingdom, is now in the United States, reports Fox News Channel and the New York Post.
As WorldNetDaily reported, Saga, 23, was kidnapped by her father as a child in 1985 and taken to the kingdom. As has happened with other Americans, Saga was married off to a Saudi and bore her own children. The woman, who claims to have been abused by her father, stepmother and husband, took refuge in the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah on June 15. She pleaded with U.S. officials to help her and her children, age 3 and 5, travel to America. Saga was told, however, that if she left, her Saudi-born children would have to stay in the kingdom.
Saudi law dictates that no woman, American or not, can leave the country without permission of her husband or father.
According to the Post report, Saga’s mother, Debbie Dornier, said last night, “She is coming home.”
Dornier would not say if her grandchildren, Ibrahim and Hanin, were also traveling to the U.S., telling the paper: “I’m really upset, and Sarah is really upset about the way she had to do it (leave Saudi Arabia).
“I’m not allowed to talk about it.”
As WND reported, Saga signed – she says under coercion – a document last week giving up custody of her two young children. Later, however, she declared she would not leave the kingdom without her kids.
Fox News Channel’s “Dayside” program has run segments on the story, having Dornier as a guest several times. Today, substitute host Greta Van Susteren announced that regular host Linda Vester was on assignment covering the reunion of Dornier and Saga. Van Susteren did not comment on the status of the children.
According to a Reuters report, Saga met with her Saudi husband in the consulate last weekend.
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