Sally Faulkner makes exciting announcement
Sally Faulkner finally has some good news to share, after living out every mother’s worst nightmare over the past couple of years.
The Brisbane mum of Lahela, 7, and Noah, 5 – who she has not seen since 2016 when she attempted to bring them back to Australia from Lebanon – has announced she is expecting a new baby.
The child will be her fourth – and second with her new partner Brendan Price. The couple area already parents to son Eli.
Sally shared a photo on her Instagram account of four ultrasound images – the first two of her children Lahela and Noah, the third Eli and the fourth image Isaac, the baby that will be joining her new family soon.
The past couple of years have been quite an ordeal for Sally, who last saw her two eldest children Lahela and Noah when she said goodbye to them at a McDonald’s play area in April 2016.
The battle for the children’s return from Lebanon to Sydney turned ugly when Sally hired a child recovery team to attempt to snatch them back and bring them home – and was also documented by the 60 Minutes crew, with some members implicated in the ordeal.
Sally was forced to give up her custodial rights under Australian law to the children’s biological father, Ali Elamine, so he would drop the abduction charges he had against her, which carried a maximum 20-year sentence.
Elamine told News Corp last year that their two children were happy living with him in Lebanon and would never be returning to Australia to live with their mother.
“We don’t really care, we’re not interested, and at the end of the day I will do what I like regardless of what she says,” Elamine said.
“When the kids are older though they will have enough evidence to know what is right and what she has done.
“I’m not interested in what people think, you see a lot of what she has said is not true. We are all good, everyone is all good, we have a good routine and we have our life.
“At the end of the day if the dog is barking you just close the door,” Elamine concluded.
Sadly, Sally says she will never forget her adorable children and will never give up on getting them back.
“I did not think for a second that the person I loved and trusted would do this to them and do this to me,” she admitted in an emotional video.
“What I want to say is that I will never stop trying and I will never, ever give up and I will do whatever it takes to make sure that Noah and Layley know they are loved by me,” Sally added.