Pascarl came to public attention in 1992, when her children were covertly removed from Australia, illegally under Australian law, by their Malaysian father.
Pascarl is very happily married to a dental surgeon and lives quietly with their children in Melbourne where she continues to run humanitarian agency, Operation Angel being active during the 2020 bushfire emergency and other war and natural disasters and remains very active in her community.
[4][5]== Career == A feature reporter for the Ten Network at the time of the abduction, Pascarl went on to research and produce several television documentary films, including the award-winning Empty Arms, Broken Hearts, covering the topic of international parental abduction of children.
Pascarl established Operation Book Power in 1995, a child literacy project in Kenya and South Africa.
She lectures internationally and advises the European Union and the US State Department and represents Australia at world forums on child abduction issues.
She is a consultant to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and has recently been appointed as a Patron of CARE International in the United Kingdom.
It was later revealed that with the help of an accomplice, Bryan Wickham, he had taken them by car to Weipa in Australia's far north, and by boat from the Cape York Peninsula to Merauke, in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya.
From there he took them to Malaysia via Sulawesi, where the authorities retrospectively awarded him custody, and the children were then settled with their father in Terengganu.
Wickham spent one year planning the abduction, arranging vehicles and a boat, studying the escape route.
Some criticism was levelled at Pascarl regarding how she, and her then husband, had dealt with the media,[citation needed] but she stated she felt justified in protecting the psychological welfare of her kidnapped children.
[12] In August 2006, her son Iddin, now 23, returned to Australia to visit his mother after fourteen years of separation.."[13] Upon the return of his wife's abducted daughter Shah in 2006, her husband Bill was the spokesperson for his wife to the media pack that had formed outside of their house.