BREAKING: Ex-Lesbian Lisa Miller Fails To Hand Over Child To Former Domestic Partner Janet Jenkins

[FreeState]

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/14675/breaking-exlesbian-lisa-miller-fails-to-hand-over-child-to-former-domestic-partner-janet-jenkins

Lets all hope the child kidnapper is caught and brought to justice soon.

From Church Report:

Lisa Miller, who was ordered by a court in Vermont to turn over her child to her former partner, has missed the 1pm EST deadline. A Vermont judge had ordered Lisa Miller to turn over daughter Isabella to Janet Jenkins at 1 p.m. Friday at the Falls Church, Va., home of Jenkins' parents.
This case has drawn worldwide attention as Miller and Janet Jenkins were lesbian partners. After a civil union ceremony in 2000, Miller was artificially inseminated and gave birth to a daughter. In 2003, the couple separated and Miller (the birth mother) renounced her homosexuality and became an evangelical Christian...

The Washington Post added the following in their article Va. woman fails to give up child to ex-partner:

...Miller did not show up with the girl, said Sarah Star, Jenkins' Vermont-based attorney. Jenkins has notified Fairfax County, Va., police that Isabella is missing, Star said.
"She's very disappointed, obviously," Star said. "She's very concerned about Isabella and asks that if anybody sees Isabella, that they please contact the authorities." ...

...Cohen awarded custody to Jenkins on Nov. 20 after finding Miller in contempt of court for denying Jenkins access to the girl. The judge said the only way to ensure equal access to the child was to switch custody.

But Cohen also noted that it appeared Miller had stopped speaking to her attorneys and "disappeared" with the child...

So, it was suspected earlier this week that Lisa Miller, who in the last month "disappeared" and stopped talking to her lawyers, was not going turn over custody of the former couple's child in accordance with a court order. Today is the day the custody hand-over was supposed to formally occur. Lisa Miller, the ex-lesbian partner in the dissolved civil union, is now a potential felon because she's now interfering with the legal custody of a child. From CBS News yesterday:

If Miller does not turn over Isabella, the most likely scenario is that she would be held in contempt of court and a warrant would be issued for her arrest, said Cheryl Hanna, a professor of constitutional law at Vermont Law School.

Case background: GLAAD: http://www.glad.org/work/cases/miller-jenkins-v-miller-jenkins/

Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/id/172554/page/1

[cali]

1. I'm sorry that Jenkins didn't hire a private investigator to keep an eye on

Miller. This was really predictable. Hope they find her and Isabella is safely brought to Jenkins.

[WeDidIt]

2. Hopefully they'll catch this kidnapper, return the child to the rightful parent

and throw Miller in prison for not less than five years.

[WeDidIt]

3. Kicking

[WeDidIt]

4. DUers ignore this kidnapping while Freepers rejoice

and eve post death threats against the judge:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419170/posts

[jmm]

6. Ignore?

There have already been threads such as the following for days on this topic-

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4203275&mesg_id=4203275

Also GD is a quick moving forum so it's easy for a thread not to get a ton of replies in less than an hour.

[Feron]

5. K & R

I was worried something like this would happen.

Hopefully Isabella is found unharmed and returned with minimal fuss to Janet.

[tammywammy]

7. I hope they find her n/t

[seeinfweggos]

8. ex lesbian? she resigned?

[LiberalAndProud]

9. She converted to fundie religion.

If you asked her right now, she would say she got saved. I wonder how long that saved feeling will last for her.

[seeinfweggos]

11. well she may be suppressing her orientation (which may be same-sex or just weakly bi-sexual)

but there is no such thing as an ex lesbian.

well maybe a dead one - like an ex-parrot

[LiberalAndProud]

12. Point taken. Sorry I missed it in the first post.

[jmowreader]

10. And in three, two, one...

"Ex-lesbian"? Give me a break. You can no more renounce your sexuality--no matter what it is--than I can renounce having fingers. This is just fundamentalist bullshit.

Hopefully Miller gets what's coming to her--five years of ugly denims and gray walls.

[Arkana]

13. "Ex-lesbian"?

How the hell do you become an "ex-lesbian"?

Can African-Americans become "ex-black people"?