Friday, April 29, 2011

Tennessee Love Connection

"Tenn. pastor charged in Vt.-Va. custody case; FBI says he helped woman leave US with daughter" April 23, 2011|By John Curran, Associated Press

MONTPELIER — A Tennessee pastor who allegedly helped a woman abscond to Central America with her 9-year-old daughter has been charged with aiding a kidnapping, the latest twist in a long-running custody dispute between lesbians who are former partners.

Timothy David Miller, 34, of Crossville, Tenn., is accused of helping arrange passage for Lisa Miller of Virginia and daughter Isabella Miller Jenkins, who have been on the run since 2009 and are believed to be living in Nicaragua.

It does not appear that Timothy Miller is related to the mother. He works with an Ohio-based Christian ministry, and people with links to Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University may have provided a beach house where the two could live, according to an FBI affidavit....

Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins were joined in a Vermont civil union in 2000. Isabella was born to Miller in 2002, and the couple broke up the following year.

Miller then moved to Virginia, renounced homosexuality, and became an evangelical Christian....

--more--" 

Also see: Search on for missing woman feared abducted in Tenn.