A girl who fled her Muslim family in Ohio after she converted to Christianity will have to return, according to a judge who heard the case yesterday.
The girl, 17-year-old Rifqa Bary, claimed she couldn’
t go back because her father would literally kill her because she switched faiths — an accusation her father denies. She found shelter with an evangelical Christian couple in Orlando, Fla., and had most recently been living in foster care while authories investigated her accusations.
But an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement uncovered no real threat to the girl, and a judge ruled she’d need to go back to Ohio (albeit apparently still in foster care), pending another look into her immigration status. Her parents originally came from Sri Lanka.
