Hari said his daughters were unhappy at Paxton-Buckley-Loda. Both Hari and Frakes had agreed in November 2004 that the girls would attend public schools unless both parents agreed on an accredited Christian school. Hari belonged to a religious sect, called the Old German Baptist Brethren, that believes that girls should have no formal education after the eighth grade.
Both Hari and Frakes had agreed in November 2004 that the girls would attend public schools unless both parents agreed on an accredited Christian school. The state’s attorney said that Hari joined a religious sect, called the Old German Baptist Brethren, that believes that girls should have no formal education after the eighth grade.
Teens’ story to air on ‘Dr. Phil’ PEORIA – The tale of two teenage Peoria girls whose parents’ custody battle stretched over years, continents and into an arcane religious sect now enters the realm of daytime television as the Dr. Phil show airs the first of a three-part series today. Mollie, 15, and Allene Hari, 13, were returned to their mother, Michelle Frakes, a special education teacher at Blaine-Sumner Middle School, a couple of months ago after spending nearly a year in Central America with their father, Michael Hari, and a religious group to which he belonged. Hari of Paxton
Two Clarence, Ill. girls abducted more than a year ago have been reunited with their mother following a chase that led from Illinois to Carroll County and finally Central America. The saga of Allene, now 13, and Mollie Hari, 15, began on April Fools Day 2005 when the girls’ mother Michelle Frakes was to have a scheduled visit. Michael Hari, the girls’ father, and Frakes had divorced earlier and Frakes was working through the court system to acquire custody of the girls because, according to her at the time, Hari failed to ensure their attendance at school. “At the time,