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Cook Islands girl detained in US set to be sent home

17:08 pm on 7 June 2019

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A nine-year-old Cook Islands girl is finally set to return to her parents after enduring an almost two-week detention in the United States. Ngatupuna Raela's family say they just want her home, while the man she travelled with - Marc Pearce - says what the US authorities have done is obscene.