{UAH} Mother of teen stowaway living in Ethiopian refugee camp

Mother of teen stowaway living in Ethiopian refugee camp

A 16-year-old boy, seen sitting on a stretcher centre, who stowed away in the wheel well of a flight from San Jose, Calif., to Maui is loaded into an ambulance at Kahului Airport in Kahului, Maui, Hawaii Sunday afternoon, April 20, 2014. (The Maui News / Chris Sugidono

Martha Mendoza And Oskar Garcia, The Associated Press 

Published Friday, April 25, 2014 2:10PM EDT 
Last Updated Friday, April 25, 2014 2:45PM EDT

SAN JOSE, Calif. - The mother of a California teen who stowed away on a flight to Hawaii tells Voice of America that her son had recently learned that she was alive after being told by his father she had died.

Speaking with VOA from a refugee camp in eastern Ethiopia, mother Ubah Mohamed Abdullahi said she felt bad that her son risked his life and that her dream is to live with her children in the United States.

FBI agents say surveillance video shows the 15-year-old jumping out of the wheel well of a Hawaiian Airlines jet on a Maui tarmac Sunday after surviving a cross-Pacific flight from San Jose, California.

Abdullahi said her ex-husband took their three children to California without her knowledge, and that she hadn't heard from them since 2006.

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