Aussie police will not help IS fighter's kids

SYDNEY:

The Australian mother in-low of a notorious
Islamic State group fighter said Monday she
was "devastated " that police had refused to
help bring her five grandchildren home from
Syria,

Karen Nettleton 's daughter Tara is married
to Khaled Sharrouf ,who gained global infamy
last year when he posted pictures of himself
and his seven years old son on Twitter holding
up the severed heads of soldiers,

News emerged last week  that Sharrouf may
have died in the same drone attack believed
to have killed fellow Australian jihadist
Mohamed Elomar,raising concerns about
what would happen to his children who were
taken to Syria last year

"My advice to the family is to engage with
the proper legal authorities and not to conduct
this discussion through the media,Immigration
Minister Peter Dutton said on Wednesday.

"I think that the Australian Federal Police (AFP)
is the natural touch point for the family,I think
they need to engage with the AFP and talk about
what options there might be"

But Sydney grandmother Karen Nettleton said
she had been in contact with the police over a
period of months beginning last year about
bringing home the children now age four and
14

They were saying they would look into helping
us getTara and the children out of Syria "she told
the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,

But she added that they suddenly changed their
attitude ,and concluded they were unable to help
her ,

"I was talking to one  of the agencies and I was
told that they wouldn't be able to help us Nettleton
said,I was  "devastated",because ,who else do you
go to get your children out of a place like that,
I certainly can't go there and get them
AFP