WEST VALLEY CITY — Fourteen-year-old Sorate Mamesani loves to shout “Mom!” through her family’s apartment, just so she can hear her mother answer.

It’s a sound she didn’t hear for almost six years.

Sorate and her four siblings, ranging in age from 9 to 17, were separated from their mother in their home of Ethiopia when she was jailed as a political prisoner in 2011.