Runaway convert says she fears returning home
ORLANDO (AP) -An Ohio teenager who ran away to Florida fearing for her life because she converted from Islam to Christianity has been ordered into state custody.
An Orlando judge on Monday ordered the 17-year-old woman into the custody of the Department of Children and Families until another hearing next week.
The teenager, who is not a U.S. citizen, says she fears her family would hurt her, kill her or send her back to her native Sri Lanka.
Her parents live in Franklin County, Ohio.
The teenager took a bus from Ohio to Orlando. She has been staying with a family she met through a Christian prayer group on Facebook.