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U.S. Sends Plane to Cuba to Get Child in Transgender Custody Case

The F.B.I. believed the child was kidnapped by a transgender parent to potentially undergo gender transition surgery, according to court filings.

.....The plane was part of an unusual F.B.I. mission to retrieve a 10-year-old American child who the F.B.I. believed had been kidnapped by a transgender parent and her partner to potentially undergo gender transition surgery, according to federal court filings.

The plane landed in Cuba on Monday to retrieve the child, according to a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a sensitive mission.

Two women from Cache County, Utah, Rose and Blue Inessa-Ethington, were arrested by the F.B.I. and are now facing federal kidnapping charges, according to the filings.

Rose, one of the child's biological parents, shares custody with the child's biological mother, identified only as "LB" in filings. Rose transitioned to female after the child's birth, according to her family members.

The allegations against the two women were detailed in an affidavit filed by an F.B.I. special agent, Jennifer Waterfield, in Utah federal court last week. In the filings, the F.B.I. described an elaborate, multicountry kidnapping plot involving $10,000 in cash.

Agents believe that the two women deceived the child's biological mother with a fake camping trip to Canada before heading to Mexico and fleeing to Cuba, according to the filings.

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Ag87H2O said:

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This is so confusing until you realize it wasn't two women.

Two women The child's parents from Cache County, Utah, Rose and Blue Inessa-Ethington, were arrested by the F.B.I. and are now facing federal kidnapping charges, according to the filings.

Rose, one of the child's biological parents dickless father, shares custody with the child's biological mother, identified only as "LB" in filings. Rose transitioned to female after the child's birth, according to her family members.

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TexasAggiesWin said:

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It's totally normal for a child's father (who pretends to be a woman) to kidnap the 10 year old child to go get the child's **** cut off in a foreign country.

~ Today's Democrat Party

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LOGAN, Utah (AP) President Donald Trump's administration took the unusual step this week of sending a government plane to Cuba to return a 10-year-old from Utah who is at the center of a complicated and contentious custody fight involving the child's gender identity.

The child's parent, Rose Inessa-Ethington, a transgender woman, is accused of taking the child to Cuba without the permission of the biological mother. Federal and state authorities sought the return of the child after a family member expressed concern that Inessa-Ethington went to Havana to get the child gender transition surgery.

Inessa-Ethington, who had run a popular Utah political blog in the 2010s, was arrested along with her partner, Blue Inessa-Ethington, and charged in the U.S. with international parental kidnapping.

The couple traveled with the child to Canada ostensibly for a camping trip in late March with Blue's 3-year-old child. However, the two adults turned off their phones after telling the older child's mother they had arrived in Canada. They flew from Vancouver to Mexico and then to Cuba on April 1, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday in federal court in Utah.

The charges don't say if the couple actually planned on getting the child gender-affirming surgery in Cuba or how they would get it because that surgery isn't legal for children in Cuba.



The search for the child began on April 3 when they were not returned to the mother in Utah as scheduled, court documents show.

The 10-year-old's mother, who was divorced from Rose Inessa-Ethington and had shared custody of the child, filed a missing-person report with police in Logan, Utah, a college and dairy farming town about 70 miles (115 kilometers) north of Salt Lake City.

Logan City Police Chief Jeff Simmons said his department's initial focus was on the custodial interference allegations in the case, and he said investigators did not learn until later about concerns over gender-affirming surgery.

Logan police spokesperson Sgt. Brandon Bevan said those concerns were raised by one family member. He declined to say who.

"They just had the concern about it, no actual physical evidence" Bevan said.

A Utah state judge ordered the return of the 10-year-old to the child's mother on April 13. Three days later, a federal magistrate judge issued an arrest warrant for the Inessa-Ethingtons. On the same day, Cuban law enforcement located the group. They were deported to the U.S. aboard the government plane Monday and arraigned in federal court in Richmond, Virginia.

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normalhorn said:

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I guess we can file this under "Yep, when we told you they're coming after the children, we meant it"?

Hopefully the FBI doesn't bring the two suspects back in a helicopter and have a Pinochet-type incident over water. That would be "awful"

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normalhorn said:

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Hopefully the FBI doesn't bring the two suspects back in a helicopter and have a Pinochet-type incident over water. That would be "awful"

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TexasAggiesWin said:

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It's totally normal for a child's father (who pretends to be a woman) to kidnap the 10 year old child to go get the child's **** cut off in a foreign country.

~ Today's Democrat Party

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