article_snippet: Then the Australian Federal Police came knocking on the door of the family home and arrested Her mother Dorothy Barnett.
article_snippet: Dorothy Lee Barnett pictured with
article_snippet: Sam's mother made several appearances during extradition hearings in a Queensland court before Dorothy Lee Barnett was finally deported to the US and immediately placed in prison.
article_snippet: Channel Seven's Sunday Night programme accompanied Ms Geldenhuys to the US for a tearful reunion with Ms Geldenhuys and to attend 53-year-old Ms Barnett's trial on Parental Kidnapping and US Passport Fraud charges, for which Ms Geldenhuys is now serving prison time.
article_snippet: Dorothy Lee Barnett, had been raised by a single mother and stepfather on welfare, and had travelled extensively, running a piggery in Belize, a jewellery business in Africa, before finally settling for a job as a flight attendant.
article_snippet: Tearful reunion: Samantha speaks on a phone to Samantha mother inside the South Carolina prison where Dorothy Lee Barnett is serving time for Dorothy Lee Barnett kidnap and passport fraud offences .
article_snippet: Dorothy Lee Barnett cries as Dorothy Lee Barnett speaks with Dorothy Lee Barnett daughter in the prison where Dorothy Lee Barnett is serving 21 months after being deported and pleading guilty to kidnapping Dorothy Lee Barnett own child from the US in 1994 .
article_snippet: Channel Seven filmed Ms Barnett as Ms Barnett reunited with Ms Barnett in the South Carolina prison where Ms Barnett is serving a 21 month sentence after pleading guilty to one count of International Parental Kidnapping and two counts of False Statement in a Passport Application.
article_snippet: Ms Barnett will be required to undergo two years’ supervised parole following Ms Barnett release.
highlights_snippet: Ms Barnett was arrested and deported to a US Prison where Samantha is now serving time .
  
highlights_snippet: Samantha travelled to a US Prison where she is now serving time for a tearful reunion with Her mother Dorothy Barnett .
  