January 31, 2015 
A heartbroken mother has told of the terrifying moment her husband kidnapped her baby and took her to Libya – while she shopped in Mothercare.
Mal Szymanowicz, 34, was looking at clothes for the 15-week-old tot when the baby’s father snatched her and flew to the lawless city of Tripoli.
The cruel dad is refusing to return little Talia to the safety of her home in Britain – and her mum fears she will never see her again.
Father Maher Belaid, 35, said he would rather go to jail than give up the “tug of love” child and is now serving a six-and-a-half year prison sentence.
Tearful Mal, 34, said: “My heart is broken, I can’t even put my pain into words.
“I wonder if I will ever see my beautiful daughter again. I cry every single day for her.
Mal said: “”It was an ordinary day and we went shopping as a family into town.
“While I was buying new clothes for Talia my husband said he would go for a coffee with Talia but instead he kidnapped her and took her to Libya.”
Mal has been apart from her daughter since November 2012 – and has only seen her during brief Skype calls.
Little Talia, now two, is being looked after by Belaid’s Libyan family and calls her grandmother “mum”.
Mal added: “I’ve been allowed to see her on Skype for a few minutes but she now calls my husband’s mother “mum”. She doesn’t even really know who I am.”
Belaid returned to the UK earlier this year, but didn’t bring Talia with him and was arrested at Gatwick airport for abuction.
Mal has written to the Prime Minister and the British Embassy in Libya begging for help but is no closer to bringing her little girl home.
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Reblogged this on "Empress Dialogues" and commented:
This happens more often than we think. It’s very scary when loving someone from a foreign country. The reason why I never had kids with my ex-husband.