disturbing scenes, page-8

true that hanrahan. The girls were sacrificed for "the greater good". If the shoe was on the other foot and 4 Australian girls were whisked away to an exotic far away land (and it has happened) we would really hope that country would return them. We must therefore honour our agreements.

So I understand the logic and the judge's predicament but it would be a decision that I would not want to live with. Clearly in this case returning to Italy is not in the girl's best interests.