When her three young girls were abducted by their father and taken abroad, Jackie Saleh was certain she would never see them again. “My world fell apart,” she says. “I felt I’d failed.
They were cruelly snatched away from me. That should never, ever happen. A mother should never have to go through that.” The girls – Rahanna, Nadia and Safia – were aged five, four, and 18 months.
Jackie herself was just 23. She recalls: “All the emotions were going through my head, thinking I would never see those girls again.
I was screaming, shouting, crying.” Her daughters were taken by their father Sadek to Saudi Arabia and then to his homeland, war-torn Yemen.
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