Ex-lesbian Lisa Miller has been on the run from the law with her daughter Isabella since her refusal to show up in court on January 1st, where she was to relinquish custody to her former partner, Janet Jenkins. Their whereabouts are still unknown, and organizations who once led the cheers for her illegal actions went silent. Still, despite her actions, Miller was not immediately found to be in contempt of court. That changed today.
A Vermont judge has ordered the arrest of a woman who has refused to turn over her 7-year-old daughter to her former lesbian partner.
Family Court Judge William Cohen found Lisa Miller of Forest, Va., in contempt of court during a hearing Tuesday and issued the arrest warrant.
Miller was ordered to surrender custody of her daughter on Jan. 1 but failed to do so and has since disappeared. Their daughter is now considered a missing person.
Jenkins has asked the public to please help her find her missing daughter.
Anyone with information regarding Isabella’s and Lisa’s whereabouts should call the Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678 or the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office at 540-586-4800.
How this is the act of a responsible mother who loves her daughter is beyond me. It’s really upsetting considering that Jenkins initially just wanted to actually see Isabella during regular visitation times. I hope that she is found soon, and that Lisa Miller is finally held accountable for the unnecessary misery she’s caused.
There is a father’s advocate named Glenn Sacks that has been tracking and writing articles about custody cases. Most of them, of course, involve fathers who are alienated from their children by the mothers.
However, he has discussed this case with distinct compassion and support for Janet Jenkins as a caring parent deprived of a relationship with her child.
He sees this situation from the obvious standpoint that NO parent should have to be treated this way when there is no indication or evidence of child abuse or neglect.
Heterosexual couples with one or two non biological parents can go through this. Meaning that the gender or orientation of the parent doesn’t matter, but that the parents are the ONLY ones this child has known and who are the ones who originally agreed to have the child together.
Were Janet Jenkins a man, this wouldn’t be an issue for the anti gay factions out there.
Except that they are considerably prejudiced against non biological parents as well, without actually coming right out and saying it.
Little Isabella had TWO parents. Janet Jenkins is the ONLY other one, and being deprived of a relationship with her ONLY on the basis of her orientation, if not her gender is exceptionally cruel and unnecessary.
And shame on groups and support from people like Deb Thurman. For exploiting this situation, and for treating it as if rightful and a committed and loving parent deserves this treatment at all.
This is another example of what I mention all the time in the retro similarities that create a vulnerability in gay people we haven’t seen in any other group since SLAVES.
Non married status gives opportunity for one’s child to be taken away arbitrarily by other family members, courts and state institutions. This is so un American and un Constitutional on it’s face. And since gay people are as singled out for such treatment, as blacks were singled out for slavery, that ANYONE would support this treatment of gay parents is rooted in the worst kind of bigotry our country should reject outright.
Although parental alienation occurs in hetero couples, we don’t see support of it in certain powerful religious groups or political arenas.
Just as there was religious/political support of slavery and the status of blacks in that system for so long.
We see it, scapegoating gays and lesbians through their children. Whether it’s in schools, churches or discriminatory Jim Crow adjacent laws.
Despicable.
Absolutely, despicable.
And deserving of all the criticism and scrutiny any civil (and sane) society and standards of equality should muster.
Anyone have a picture of the fugitive and child? I live near fallwell territory and work in a public space, I could quite easily see them around here.
I wonder if the right is losing interest in this case. Since the arrest warrant was issued, they don’t seem to be filling up the comments section of posts reporting the lastest on the case. With previous twists and turns in this case, there were dedicated posters who would rant on and on about “Oh, the injustice!!!!” Maybe they are still recovering from CPAC.
I’m curious as to whether a few of them are concerned about having given a little too much support (legal issues).
Ragarth
Picture here
https://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/category/families/parenting
I am not the least surprised about how this case has turned out. The RR is the first to scream for the blood-soaked sword of justice to flash forth against their enemies when they win in court; and the first to turn tail and flee to evade justice when they don’t win.
So unlike their Christ.