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The family of Sharrouf's wife, Tara Nettleton, is trying to help her and the couple's five children return to Sydney, Fairfax Media reported on WednesdayCG210.

Among them is a young son believed to be the boy photographed last year holding the severed head of a Syrian.

Asked on Wednesday about news of their return, Mr Dutton said the childrens' mother, Tara Nettleton, could also be charged with terrorist offencesreenex.

He said the treatment of the children of returning suspects would depend on the circumstances and the ages of the children.

"If they're infants, for example, then they would be in state care, as we've seen with some people who have decided to abandon their children and go off and fight," he said.

"So those arrangements would operate as they would with any family where parents have abandoned their children or not acting in the best interests of their children."

Sharrouf was jailed in 2009 for four years for being part of a cell planning attacks in Sydney and Melbourne.

After his release he was banned from leaving the country but used his brother's passport to travel to Syria with his familyreenex.