I've been posting regular updates on the Miller Kidnapping legal saga here, but I thought this link to an interview of Philip Zodhiates right before his imprisonment (part one, start at 9:15 or so) and (part two, start at about 1:00) deserves a post of its own.
Notice that the Justice Department was able to get the courts to suppress affidavits both damning to Janet Jenkins and supporting of Philip Zodhiates; to keep his trial from being held where the alleged conspiracy actually occurred (where he was much more likely to get a fair trial); to have the trial held where an impartial jury would be harder to find; and made sure that even then, no one approaching the status of the defendant's peer was allowed to serve on the jury. It was a travesty of justice from beginning to end, with Janet Jenkins even using civil discovery to feed incriminating information to the prosecutor.
This is not about a child being taken away from her parents. This is not about conspiring to violate a federal law (no evidence was raised in the trials that any of the defendants were aware of the law they were sentenced under). This is about an abused girl trying to escape her abuser, and the goverment, guided by the LGBTQ agenda, sparing no expense at preventing it, and punishing to the utmost all who helped her escape.
Isabella is already 16, the age at which a child in many states can finally choose which parent to live with. In a little over a year, she will be old enough to nullify any custody order, no matter how austere. But under today's suppression of adulthood responsibility, she will not be totally free of the Vermont court's decisions until she graduates from college or turns 26. So there's little chance of her coming out of hiding any time in the near future. May God protect her, and her longsuffering mother, in the meanwhile.
UPDATE MARCH 8, 2019
Philip's appeal was turned down by the Supreme Court. He will spend the next couple years in prison.
Can you explain the sentence about graduating from college or turning 26?
ReplyDeleteGood question, Lydia. Although the age of majority is 18 ever since passage of the 26th Amendment, states have moved to push out the age at which a parent is responsible for supporting his non-custodial children well past that milestone. I know of mothers with 2 or 3 children who are still receiving child support from THEIR fathers (as well as, potentially, the fathers of their children), and under Obamacare, parents are required to keep their otherwise uninsured children on their medical insurance all the way up to age 26, whether or not they are married. The only way to establish one's own independence before that age is to not be in college and be working at a job with full benefits.
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