MAIL ONLINE: A runaway teenage girl who converted from Islam to Christianity has reached a court settlement that allows her to live away from her Muslim parents.
Rifqa Bary, 17, will stay in a foster home under state custody in Columbus, America, until she turns 18 in August.
Bary's attorney read a statement in Franklin County Juvenile Court, saying that the girl and her parents love and respect each other and will try to resolve their differences through counselling.
Bary ran away in July, saying she feared her father Mohamed would harm or kill her for leaving Islam.
She fled to the Florida home of married pastors Blake and Beverly Lorenz, whom she had contacted on Facebook.
After staying with them for two weeks, she was eventually moved into foster care. >>> Mail Foreign Service | Thursday, January 21, 2010
