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Out of jail, but not out of trouble. Stuck in Dubai over unpaid debts, German mother of three says she wants to be with her children who were deported while she was in prison
In June 2009, following the bounced-cheque complaint from her business partner, Konig was sentenced to nine months in prison after spending a month in detention.
As a result of her imprisonment, her rent cheque bounced too and four months were added to her jail term. She was further made to serve another four months for an "absconding" report lodged by the Free Zone authority.
"My children have gone through severe trauma. I just want to stand on my own feet again.
"I've been told that the Austrian government had arranged for their deportation. I want to tell my daughters that I am not a criminal and I love them. There's nothing else in life I want but to be with them, to see them grow up," she said. The last photograph that Konig has of her three daughters — who all hold Austrian passports — is two years old.
Caught in what she said was a "vicious cycle", Konig is appealing to "people of goodwill" and her compatriots to help her out of her legal limbo in Dubai. "Someone from the German consulate in Dubai visited me in jail with a list of lawyers, but I don't have the money to pay an acceptance fee," she said
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