U.S. Sends Plane to Cuba to Get Child in Transgender Custody Case
The New York Times • • nation
Key Points:
- A Justice Department Boeing 757 jet made a rare direct flight from Virginia to Cuba to retrieve a 10-year-old American child believed to have been kidnapped by a transgender parent and her partner.
- The FBI mission involved arresting two women from Cache County, Utah—Rose and Blue Inessa-Ethington—who face federal kidnapping charges related to the child’s abduction.
- According to court filings, Rose, one of the child’s biological parents who transitioned to female, allegedly deceived the child’s other biological mother with a fake camping trip before fleeing through Canada, Mexico, and ultimately Cuba.
- The FBI described the case as an elaborate, multicountry kidnapping plot involving $10,000 in cash, as detailed in an affidavit filed in Utah federal court.
