Mile. Antoinette Brun, the Catholic social worker who had the Finaly children baptized into the Catholic faith while they were in her care and then refused to turn them over to their lawful guardian, was this week-end acquitted by a French court in Riom of charges of disobeying a court order when, instead of surrendering the two orphan boys to their Israeli aunt, she spirited them out of France to Spain.
After months of negotiations among the Jewish community of France, the Catholic heirarchy and the French police, the children were returned from Spain and handed over to their aunt who travelled here for them. She later removed them to Israel under an agreement which provides for their education under specific conditions, one of which is that they shall be free to choose their own religion when they grow up.
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