Arrested couple bemoan Qatar ‘kidnap’
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A UNITED States couple in Qatar accused of killing their adopted child to harvest her organs said yesterday they feel “kidnapped” by the Gulf emirate, with no verdict expected until late March.
Matthew and Grace Huang, Americans of Asian origin, were arrested in January 2013 after the death of their adopted daughter Gloria, an 8-year-old girl from Ghana, and accused of causing her death in order to sell her organs.
The couple’s supporters describe them as a loving family and insist the girl died of an eating disorder caused by the “extreme poverty” she suffered in the West African country.
The couple were released in November pending trial, but yesterday the court denied their request to leave the country to join their other two adopted children in the US, and said a verdict will be announced on March 27, a source said.
The defense said the public prosecutor is pushing for the death penalty, although Qatar has not had any executions for several years.
“We’ve lost our daughter, and our sons have lost their sister. And this court has taken more than a year of our lives,” Matthew Huang said. “In the midst of our innocence, we feel we have been kidnapped, and we just want to go home.”
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