Magistrate OKs supervised contact between Rifqa Bary, Florida couple
Mohamed Bary after today’s hearing.
A magistrate ruled this afternoon that Fathima Rifqa Bary will be permitted to have supervised telephone contact with the Florida couple who sheltered the runaway last summer.
In the latest development in a case that has wound its way through the legal system for the past six months, Mohamed and Aysha Bary filed a motion in Franklin County Juvenile Court that contact should be prohibited between Rifqa, 17, and Blake and Beverly Lorenz.
In December, lawyers for both Rifqa and her parents had agreed that no contact would be allowed until the teen’s counselor said it was in her best interest.
In a letter read today in court, the counselor said that unsupervised telephone contact would be OK.
But Magistrate Lorenzo Sanchez said that phone calls should be supervised until Judge Elizabeth Gill could rule in the next hearing on Feb. 16.
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