A father has been locked up for four-and-a-half years for deceiving his wife into travelling to Sudan and abandoning her there, taking their two children back to Australia.
Mohamed Ahmed Omer, 52, was the first person in Victoria to be charged with the commonwealth offence of exit trafficking and faced a County Court jury trial where he was found guilty in April.under the guise of a holiday in 2014.Khartoum, Sudan. Mohamed Ahmed Omer withdrew his wife's support for her Australian visa, then left her in Sudan.
He left Sudan to return to Australia with the two kids, without telling his wife, and took with him her passport and other identity documents. Prosecutors argued Omer's "callous behaviour", which included coercive control of his wife, should be punished with a prison term. "You treated her effectively as a chattel which could simply be discarded at your will," he told Omer on Tuesday.
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