article_snippet: The girls' parents have also publicly begged for police to come home.
article_snippet: An attorney for the Mahmood family said the Mahmood family was "surprised, horrified" that the contact had not prompted police action "because the Mahmood family understood that Aqsa's social media content was being closely monitored by the security services."
article_snippet: the Mahmood family condemned the Mahmood family daughter's actions, describing the Mahmood family "as a perverted and evil distortion" of Islam.
article_snippet: But the Mahmood family also said the UK security services "have serious questions to answer" over the Mahmood family failure to intervene after one or more of the missing girls got in touch with her.
highlights_snippet: The girls' parents publicly begged The girls' to come home .