Posted on 06/14/2006 2:48:12 PM PDT by pitinkie
NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - The mother of a West Bank man who invited a 16-year-old American to the Mideast to get married says she is distraught that the teenager has returned home and hopes to bring the couple together.
Sana Jinzawi says she was waiting at the airport in Tel Aviv to pick up Katherine Lester, who met her 20-year-old son Abdullah on the popular MySpace.com Web site.
Lester had boarded a flight to Israel last week after slipping out of her mother's house in Gilford, Mich. But Sana Jinzawi said by telephone from her West Bank home in Jericho Wednesday that her son was heartbroken and insisted the two are in love.
"She was going to sign a marriage contract as soon as she got here," the mother said, adding she told Lester to "bring a pink dress for the engagement party and a white dress for the wedding."
"She wanted to convert to Islam and wear the head covering and live with us and adopt our culture," Sana Jinzawi said.
Abdullah Jinzawi, who works in his father's business delivering goods to minimarkets, is no longer giving interviews. But in a phone interview with WNEM-TV in Saginaw, Mich., on Saturday, he said he met Lester on the Web seven months ago, that he was a wealthy businessman and that he wanted to marry her. He said he sent her the money for the flight.
Sana Jinzawi said five other Jericho residents had brought American girls to Jericho in recent years and that all the couples now live in the U.S.
Sana Jinzawi says her son and Lester have been in touch since the teenager returned to Michigan. "Neither of them are giving up on each other," she said.
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Appears that this 16-year-old's mother hasn't changed a thing if the kid is still in touch with the pedophile.
No such critter under Islam.
that girl is soooo freaking lucky she didn't show up, she has no idea what she almost got into. They would have taken her passport away and beat and raped her till she did what she was told, and there is NOTHING anyone could or would do to help her.
Myspace link to a Katherine Lester in Gilford MI
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=56212385
She is at the age of consent in Michigan (16).
Unless..."Hi, we're a SEAL team, and we're here to get you out."
Best thing anyone stuck in that kind of situation could hear.
Good Lord.
"For that matter, what mother of a 16-year-old girl doesn't know what her daughter's doing on MySpace?"
To give you a hint, the news article I read a few days ago had mom saying something like "With all the stuff the government can do now under the Patriot Act, but a 16-year old can get on an airplane for another country?"
Perhaps he is a legally defined pedophile in this country but attraction to physically mature members of the opposite sex is NOT pedophilia. By the same token most of the Catholic priest "pedophilia" was straight out homosexual abuse, not pedophilia. Reacting to attraction by a 16 year old may be regarded generally as inappropriate but it is not pedophilia. An actual pedophile is someone attracted to pre pubescent children.
Well, it is probably only an hour from home. The border tends not to be a big deal to people who live near it.
OMG she is still logging on!! Parents are idiots!
About me: I'm kind a shy at first but I like to do fun things. I love men all types of men and I don't care about your age, you can be like 18 or 35, it's what's inside that counts.
Who I'd like to meet: A nice funny guy. Looks to me are not as important as someone who can make me laugh. Age is only a number.
It reads like a sting operation trolling for old men looking for young girls. If this isn't a hoax, I'd say she has some very serious upbringing/parental supervision issues.
I don't think the same age of consent laws apply over there. I'm sure the girls parents are horrified though.
Where did you find that info on the woman who was blown up? I haven't seen any info on her. Thanks!
After reading her profile- assuming ? this is her- I am speechless. She is advertising for a man, any man- up the 35 YEARS OLD!! This girl is asking for trouble, as my mother would have said.
I can not imagine a girl having a site like this- pretty come hither I think.
They held an assembly at my daughter's school this year about the dangers of myspace and similiar sites. I have repeatedly warned my daughter of internet danger- and keep track of what she does online. She said very few of the kids really paid attention to the info they were given and the horrible stories they were told about people molested and stalked over things on the net. The kids don't think it really is a problem- YIKES!
No way of telling it's her, but some of her friend's comments tend to lead to that conclusion. Since the story's only been out a couple days, it would be hard to accumulate a friend's list and so many responses in just a couple days (if it was a fake somebody put up after the fact.)
In the last paragraph of the article, when asked if she was still in contact with the guy, the lawyer basically said, "Yes."
Oh, I can imagine girls having all sorts of sites like that.
What I can't get my head around is what sort of parent would allow that to happen.
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