A
16-year-old Coptic Christian girl who was kidnapped in Egypt has finally been
returned to her family after three months in captivity, a leading persecution
media watchdog has reported.
World Watch Monitor reports that the Christian girl known by
the name Marylin was rescued after police located her and arrested her captors
in a town just outside of Cairo on Sept. 30.
Marylin,
who is from a village outside of Minya and hundreds of miles away from where she
was found, had been missing since June 28 and was believed to be at risk of
being married off or sold.
"Recently
we found out that Marilyn was held in a place in 10th of Ramadan city. ... We
went to the local police station and they really did their best to reach her and
managed to arrest her kidnapper, Taha, and his brother, Gaber, and release
Marilyn," The village priest, Father Boutros Khalaf, told World Watch Monitor. "She returned back to her family on
Saturday, Sept. 30, after 92 days."
The
priest added that Marylin had "not been treated well" by her captors and that
she is "very happy to be back with her family."
"We
thank God for answering our prayers and the prayers of many other people," he
added. "And we thank all the policemen in the police station that helped us so
much in releasing our daughter, Marilyn. We appreciate their great efforts."
Christian Post.
