Breaking: Rifqa Bary ordered back to Ohio

Bumped

Fla Judge orders runaway to return home:

A Florida judge says he plans to order the teenager who ran away from Ohio to Florida because she feared physical harm for converting from Islam to Christianity sent back to Ohio.

The Orlando judge said Tuesday that he will sign the order when he gets the documents on 17-year-old Rifqa Bary's (RIFF'-kuh BEAR'-ee) immigration status.

Bary has been in foster care in Orlando while her case was being reviewed. The judge says he will likely turn over the case to an Ohio court in the next few weeks.

Bary ran away from her parents' Columbus-area home in July, saying she feared being killed for changing religions. But a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation found no credible threats to Bary.

No credible threats? Hmmm. And are the Bary family's immigration papers all in order? If so, what is the hold up? From WBDO's live blogging of the hearing:

3:54 pm - Bartholomew said she has received copies of only two pages of Rifqa's mother's passport. She wants the entire document.

3:55 pm - Dawson said he is troubled that the parents seem not to know what the court demands.

3:57 pm - Dawson set an administrative hearing on October 23rd. He wants to know by then that the immigration papers have been supplied, as he ordered in each of the three hearings he had held for the teenager's status.

Update5:20 pm MST: Ask and ye shall recieve: Barbarossa over at Jawa has this:
A new wrinkle in the Rifqa Bary case - the family is here illegally.

"They used Rifqa's eye injury to get a visa so she could get treatment and overstayed the visa, which is why they have steadfastly refused to provide the documents to the court."

Update: 5:30 pm MST: Pamela over at Atlas Shrugs is back with her blow-by-blow report from the courtroom. Lots of lawyering going on and she captures it all. She also smacks down FNC reporter, Phil Keating, in true Pamela style. (He and FNC have been really lame about this case, in my opinion.)

"I also had it out with Phil Keating of FOX news.I asked him outright infront of all the news cams why he had it out for Rifqa. He said he didn't. He cited FTLE report showing no threat. I said they didn''t touch the threat. They did not look into apostasy killings or the punishment for apostasy in Islam. He said where's you proof. I cited the Al-Ahzar fatwa. Eyes glazed."

Update: 5:55 pm MST: WBDO is reporting that Rifqa won't be leaving right away but agrees with the Ohio judge that "the sooner these parties get in one courtroom, the better." Rifqa and her parents are to first undergo a psychiatric evaluation and her "legal immigration status remains in question".

October 23 will be the next scheduled court appearance for Rifqa and her family.