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The name of my daughter is Raya. She is 23 now. We live in Kyiv. Three years ago I took a lodger. He was a student from Jordan. I called him Azim.
In a time my daughter fell in love with him. He didn't want to marry her and I saw he didn't love her. But soon my daughter had got a child. It was a boy. We gave him name Arthur. After child was born, Azim disappeared. He went to Jordan. My grandson was one year old, when Azim came back and began to insist on adopting the child. I was against it but my daughter wonted her son to have father. So they formed the adoption. Some time passed and Azim began to ask Raya to go to Jordan to see his father. I asked my daughter not to do it, but she didn’' obey. They left Kyiv.
I knew that if Raya wasn't happy with him in Kyiv she wouldn’' be happy with him in Jordan too.
In a time my daughter called me. She was crying and said that they lived with Azim's parents. His parents were not bad, but the life there was terrible. Azim didn't allow her to leave the house, made her to shut her face and to eat without spoon. (They have such custom).
He still didn’' want to marry her.
Raya understood that Azim needed the son only to get state privilege for the child. He got the piece of land and hoped to get the other privileges.
It was going on about half of the year. But one day Azim said to my daughter that she had to move to another man. She began to protest but he showed to her money which he had received from that man and explained that she became the slave of that man.
Raya called me. The Ukrainian embassy helped me to return my daughter to Ukraine, but my grandson was left in Jordan.
Now we don't know who can help us to return our boy.
From time to time Azim calls to Kyiv. He wants us to sell our flat and for these money ransom my grandson.
Is there anybody who can help us?
source: La Strada Ukraine