What to Know About a Kidnapping Case Involving a Child Flown Back to the US From Cuba
The child was returned to their biological mother this week when President Donald Trump’s administration took the unusual step of sending a government plane to Cuba to retrieve the child. Federal officials cited concerns that the child had been taken to Havana for gender transition surgery. It’s not clear from court documents if the defendants, Rose Inessa-Ethington — a transgender woman and the child’s biological father — and partner Blue Inessa-Ethington actually planned on getting the child surgery, which isn’t legal for children in Cuba. A Canada camping trip turns into a flight to Cuba Rose Inessa-Ethington had shared custody under a court agreement and had arranged to take the child along with Blue Inessa-Ethington and Blue’s 3-year-old child to Calgary, Canada, last month, ostensibly to go camping, authorities said. Instead they went hundreds of miles away to Vancouver, Canada, and boarded a flight to Mexico City. On April 1, they flew to Cuba, authorities said. When the group failed to return as expected on April 3, the child’s mother contacted police in Logan, Utah, …
