A man who abandoned his wife in Sudan while he returned to Australia with their children is Victoria’s first prosecution of the crime of exit trafficking.
A mother who left Australia and was stranded in Sudan after being tricked by her husband was jailed in the African country for three days and further traumatised by the long struggle to reunite with her young children.
But, a Melbourne court heard, her “nightmare continued” as Omer continually moved their children to avoid her. Two months after her return to Australia, in April 2016, Omer took the children back to Sudan and left them there.Darrian Traynor He had withdrawn his support for her visa and, after arriving in Sudan, he changed the family tickets home.His barrister told Tuesday’s pre-sentence hearing that Omer’s post-traumatic stress disorder from growing up in a civil war would make prison more difficult.
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