- Janet Jenkins
Janet Jenkins has been fighting since 2003 to get to see her daughter, Isabella, on a regular schedule. It looked like she was finally going to get her wish when the judge in her ongoing custody battle ruled that Jenkins’ ex, Lisa Miller, would have to hand over custody of the daughter to Jenkins.
The judge issued the order after Miller repeatedly refused to follow court orders granting Jenkins visitation rights.But now Miller has taken Isabella and disappeared. Jenkins said she last saw her daughter in January, and last spoke to her in March.
Isabella was born to the couple in 2002 after Miller was artifically inseminated, and after the two had moved from Virginia to Vermont and entered into a legal civil union. But the women broke up in 2003, and Miller moved back to Virginia, announced she was no longer a lesbian and became an evangelical Christian. At that point, she got hooked up with attorneys from a right-wing religious group and refused to allow Jenkins to see the child.
Jenkins went to court in Vermont and got rulings in her favor. But Miller retaliated by going to court in Virginia, where she got judges ruling in her favor. Eventually though, even the Virginia courts said the Vermont court rulings should stand. But still Miller refused.
Miller was supposed to hand over Isabella to Jenkins on New Year’s Day. But neither mother nor daughter has been seen or heard from in more than a month.
Tammye,
Janet is not the biological mother, she’s not an adoptive mother, and she is not an in loco parentis mother in that there was never a time where she was the sole provider or caregiver. How can you call Janet “her mother”?
Robert
How sick is this? Lisa Miller came out of the lesbian lifestyle, but now she has to hand over her child to her ex-lesbian partner. Janet Jenkins has no genetic connection to the child whatsoever. Just goes to show how screwed up our courts have become in the hands of crack-headed liberals like the one in the White House. This is what you get when you vote DEMOCRAT.
Mary and Robert~
Obviously by your stone-deaf comments you have absolutely no idea what a same-sex couple goes thru to be inseminated. They were in a committed relationship, had MOVED to Vermont so that they could be legally recognized as a couple. If you knew all of the story, which I am sure the judge’s have a pretty good grasp on all of the details you would know that they had planned on Jenkins adopting the child, unfortunately one cannot seem to do this until the birth thereof.
It is Miller’s continued rebuke of the court system, led no doubt by some advice from a crack-pot fear mongering attorney in her new religious “sect”. Whether you like it or not gays and lesbians deserve the same EQUAL rights as everyone else.