High Court judge Jus­tice Sharon Gib­son has hand­ed down an or­der mak­ing two chil­dren who are re­turn­ing from Syr­ia, wards of the court.

The chil­dren will be un­der the con­trol of the Chil­dren's Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Au­thor­i­ty has been grant­ed a Child As­sess­ment Or­der to as­sess the state of the chil­dren's health, de­vel­op­ment and the man­ner in which they have been treat­ed.

The as­sess­ment will en­tail med­ical, so­cial, psy­cho­log­i­cal, psy­choso­cial, psy­choe­d­u­ca­tion­al and psy­chi­atric ex­am­i­na­tion of the chil­dren and their par­ents or guardians.

The or­der al­lows the Chil­dren's Au­thor­i­ty to mon­i­tor the chil­dren for an ini­tial pe­ri­od of six months to de­ter­mine the ad­di­tion­al needs that the chil­dren would re­quire sub­se­quent to their place­ment with their moth­er.

The court has al­so or­dered that me­dia hous­es are not to pub­lish or broad­cast the iden­ti­ties of the chil­dren.

The two chil­dren who were kid­napped by their fa­ther and tak­en to Syr­ia, were res­cued through ef­forts led by Clive Stafford-Smith, a UK lawyer of Perkins-Fer­reira and founder of Re­prieve, who used pri­vate re­sources to re­unite the chil­dren with their moth­er in Lon­don, be­fore be­ing flown home to Trinidad.