nannu. He died with a heavy heart knowing she is still missing.” At the end of October RELATED STORIES She was believed to have been taken there by her biological mother, who had unsupervised access to her for a number of hours on Saturdays and Sundays, at the girl's request as part of a reintegration plan. The Social Welfare Ministry said on Thursday that the Family Court had upheld its request for the case to be declared a child abduction. Madam Justice Jacqueline Padovani Grima declared that the child had been taken out of Malta illegally in breach of Maltese law and international conventions. She ordered the child's immediate return to Malta, once traced.