Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:26:47 +0200https://english.radio.cz/children-torn-between-two-people-two-homelands-two-cultures-8610908© 2026 Radio Prague International Six year old Sara Barao is home from Portugal. She arrived as she left - followed at every step by photographers and television crews honing in on a personal tragedy. At four Sara's childhood turned into a nightmare as her Portuguese father and Czech mother broke up and fought a stormy battle over custody rights. When her mother lost the court case two years ago - she and Sara went into hiding. But, at the end of 2006 the authorities caught up with them and Sara underwent the traumatic experience of having her parents physically fight over her in the street. She was taken to Portugal and it seemed that the case was closed. But then came the news that Sara had stopped eating and communicating. Her mother was quickly summoned and it was only then that her parents reached an agreement - opening the way for her to return to the Czech Republic with her mother. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/barao_sara.jpg?timestamp=1591416632 https://english.radio.cz/children-torn-between-two-people-two-homelands-two-cultures-8610908 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9