Posted: 01/30/2010 at 12:48pm | IP Logged

We're told Rifqa Bary learned through the newspaper that her parents are fighting the foster care agreement. Mohamed Bary denies he intends to kill her.

Rifqa's Parents Go Back on Their Word, Now They Want Custody

by Meredith Heagney, The Columbus Dispatch

COLUMBUS, OH - The agreement between Rifqa Bary and her parents to settle their conflict through counseling has ended without a single meeting between the parents and their daughter, according to a motion filed in Franklin County Juvenile Court. It adds that the Barys now object to all decisions made on January 19th and want a trial on the dependency case.

The parents - Mohamed and Aysha Bary - are withdrawing their consent to resolve the case. Rifqa and her parents agreed on January 19th that she would stay in foster care and they would undergo counseling instead of beginning a dependency trial to determine where the 17 year-old should live.

Rifqa ran away in July, saying her father abused her and threatened to kill her for converting from Islam to Christianity.

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