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A Minnesota couple is worried about their American granddaughters after Italian authorities placed the children in foster care while their mother, an Air Force staff sergeant, was on a mission last week.

On Oct. 13, police in Pordenone, Italy, took away Staff Sgt. Kris Wylie’s daughters — Leighlora, 7, and Lillian Ann, 5 — from the custody of her Italian fiance at their off-base home while Wylie was on a mission outside of Italy. They were put in the Italian version of Child Protective Services.

“You think of the children themselves in a strange place with strangers,” said Bob Benson, of White Bear Lake, Minn., a suburb of St. Paul. “Fortunately they can speak the language, but they aren’t with their parents; they were just ripped away, no reasons given, no paperwork, no nothing.”

Italian authorities have charged Wylie, 28, with three counts connected to the maltreatment of children, according to Tech. Sgt. Michael O’Connor at the Aviano Air Force Base in Aviano, Italy.

“Her squadron leadership is in full support of her and believe the allegations to not be true,” O’Connor said.

Benson and his wife, Marcia, learned of their grandchildren’s plight from their daughter on Wednesday. “All we know is that our grandchildren are missing and our daughter is telling us that she’s been charged with abandonment,” Bob Benson said.

Americans Put in Italian Foster Care While Air Force Mom on Mission

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