An 8-year-old girl at the heart of a long-running child custody fight between former lesbian partners may have fled to Central America with her birth mother, a lawyer for one of the women said.
The girl, Isabella Miller-Jenkins, and her birth mother, Lisa Miller, failed to appear for a court-ordered custody swap in January and are believed to have flown to El Salvador last September, said attorney Sarah Star, who represents ex-partner Janet Jenkins.
Star said a Virginia police officer told her that Miller and the girl flew to El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, from Juarez, Mexico, which is across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas.
“This is obviously horrifying,” Star said Thursday. “Isabella’s not in school. She’s most likely in a country that is not as developed as the U.S., and (Jenkins is) worried about her. She’s worried she’s not in a safe environment. As far as we know, Lisa Miller doesn’t even speak Spanish.”
In case you’re new, you’ll remember that Isabella Miller-Jenkins is the daughter of Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins, who decided to bring her into the world when they were a couple. They later were joined in a civil union, until Lisa Miller suddenly went off the deep end, converted to fundamentalist Christianity, and decided that, because of her newfound homophobia, therefore the law did not apply to her. Because of her violation of numerous court orders for visitation, Lisa Miller was to hand custody of Isabella over to Janet Jenkins in January of this year.
Lisa and Isabella have now been missing for six months.
If you’re a Central American reader or have family or friends in the region, and happen to spot these two, please contact the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
(h/t Melanie Nathan)
Vic– please answer my question. PLEASE~!
Great Gobs of Goo!
I stumbled on this thread and gotta tell you it’s, well let’s call them people, like Vic and Jon that remind me why I’m an atheist. You guys missed the time of The Inquisition by a few centuries. Have a lovely fantasy! No disrespect to authentically spiritual souls.
Wow Vic, asking got NOT to forgive someone–that’s not very Christian–actually, come to think of it, it is. It’s petty, judgemental, that’s exactly what I think of when I hear the word “Christian”.
No kidding, Tony. Not one person in this comments thread has actually harmed Vic in any way, unless hurting his fee-fees counts. Yet he thinks we all deserve to be tortured forever. Pretty pathetic.
Jesus said that in order to follow him you WILL suffer and you WILL be hated “as I have been hated”. Therefore I feel that Lisa is undergoing something called ‘purification’. Basically if you are a christian and havent offended anyone (not intentionally, just by mere practice of the Bible.)then you’re doing it wrong. God doesnt want your kind of faithiness. GO.
PS and actually its a good sign that God would consider someone worthy of such struggles. She is probably honored that God doesn’t consider this “more than she can bear”.
When did international kidnapping become “purification”? Seems like pure nonsense and a way to rationalize criminal, outlaw behavior.
I have a better way of testing her fanaticism: Lock her up in the pokey for a few years for the crimes she has committed.
@Vic
I am an Archaeologist, I have a Masters from UCL and am currently researching and writing my PhD, specialising in the archaeology of Ancient Egypt and the Levant (that’s the countries that lie on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean).
I can hereby tell you that you are categorically mis-informed, nay, wrong in your baseless assertions.
The very fact that you neglected to produce ANY evidence to back up your rantings indicates that you are merely vomiting up regurgitated -opinions- that you heard brayed from the pulpit.
Perhaps you should try carrying out some independent empirical research yourself, rather than relying on your preacher and religious pseudo-scientists to feed you these grossly inaccurate statements.