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Minister Tony Abbott and Tara Nettleton

John Kerry: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry described the image as "one of the most disturbing, stomach-turning, grotesque photographs ever displayed." Fairfax Media newspapers reported Wednesday that the Australian family of Sharrouf Muslim convert wife, Tara Nettleton, was trying to help her and her five children return to Sydney, according to Brandon Sun. Asked about the family, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said if the children had committed a crime, they would be treated by the Australian courts the same way as other juvenile offenders. "But the point I want to stress is that criminals will be punished whether they're young, whether they're old, whether they're male, whether they're female, whether they're criminals abroad or criminals at home," Abbott told reporters. "Criminals will be punished and to participate in the kind of barbarism that we have seen so often in the Middle East is just wrong. Sydney-born convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf horrified the world last year by posting on his Twitter account from Syria a photograph of his 7-year-old son clutching the severed head. It morally wrong and it a crime under Australian law and it will be punished," he said. Police have confirmed he faces an arrest warrant in Australia on terrorism offences. There is no evidence that Sharoouf, who slipped out of Australia in late 2013 using his brother passport because his own had been cancelled, wanted to return to Australia, the newspapers reported. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.