The children, aged 17 and 15, planned and executed an escape across 550km to avoid the forced marriages.
man has been jailed after allegedly trying to force his teenage children into two separate marriages, the AFP has said.
In 2022, he told his daughter, then 17, that she would marry a chemist in Pakistan, and the wedding ceremony would take place over the phone. They contacted their aunt in Pakistan with a secret hidden SIM card which they put into one of their half-sibling's phones.Then, the siblings discovered their father would be travelling to Melbourne on February 3, and they planned the escape for the next morning.They took their passports out of their father's room, packed two backpacks, cut a hole in a window and fled.
Then, they were picked up three kilometres away from their home in a pre-paid taxi, organised by relatives, which took them to Narrandera Airport.
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