According to TVM news, the Attorney General has recommended that a presidential pardon requested by a 57-year-old mother is accepted.
The mother, by profession a teacher, was jailed after her estranged husband demanded that police charge the woman with withholding access to her then 17-year-old son.
However, both mother and son said the son, today 18, did not wish to meet his father and she could not force him to.
The mother has now formally written to President George Abela – through her lawyer Leonard Caruana – asking him to issue a pardon as allowed in the Constitution.
Naqbel mal-mahfra imma ghandu jkun hemm medjazzjoni biex it-tifel u l-missier jibdew jersqu lejn xulxin u hawn tidhol l-ghaqal tal-omm li taghmel minn kollox biex it-tifel ma jitliefx ghalinqas l-hbieberija ta’ missieru. Hija difficli imma tista issir, u b’hekk jitnaqqas id-dispjacir, rabja u disprezz li t-tifel jista jkollu lejn missieru.
L-omm bhala ghallima ghanda l-mezzi kollha li taghmel hajjiet it-tifel taghha felici u trankwilla. Difficli imma bl’ghajnuna t’Alla tasal kif wasal jien.