article_snippet: the girls families told British lawmakers Tuesday British lawmakers had no idea what the girls were planning, and said The girls' families were baffled by the teenagers' decision to leave The girls' families homes and families.
article_snippet: his daughter also said his daughter had no idea how his daughter cousin accessed the money needed for the trip.
article_snippet: the families' claim the families' were not told about a 15-year-old friend of the girls going to Syria weeks earlier -- and say that had the families' known, the families' might have been able to prevent the families' daughters from traveling too.
article_snippet: Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said subsequent police investigations indicated the three girls had paid in cash for the three girls plane tickets to Turkey at a local travel agency, using money linked to the theft of jewelry from the three girls families.
article_snippet: However, the families' lawyer asked how the families' had managed, as minors, to board the flight without being challenged.
article_snippet: It's not clear where the three girls would have gotten the money to meet the costs.
article_snippet: However, the parents of the seven girls were already aware from the Deputy Head that Girl 1 had been reported missing, all the teenagers were all being co-operative, the parents of the seven girls were all being treated as potential witnesses and there was nothing whatsoever to indicate that the parents of the seven girls were planning to travel to Syria.
highlights_snippet: Relatives of the girls tell UK lawmakers Relatives of the girls had no idea what the girls were planning .
  