Custodial Mom, Janet Jenkins on Nightline -”Suddenly I was a Sinner!”
By, Melanie Nathan, January 28, 2010. Janet Jenkins, mother of Isabelle made her first TV appearance on Nightline today, since the abduction of her daughter by the non-custodial mother, Lisa Miller. Lezgetreal’s Bridgette P. LaVictoire has been covering this story and there are many related posts on Lezgetreal to refer to for the chronology of events and fact pertaining to the bitter custody battle between the two mothers.
Miller had withheld Isabella from seeing Jenkins, disregarding the Court ordered visitation. The child, born of the Civil Union between the moms, has been registered as a missing child with the National Center for Missing Children since Miller failed to show up for a handing over of custody.
“ All I want,” says Jenkins, “is a healthy relationship with my child. You don’t just drop a parent and walk away. I believe the church is involved in hiding her. It is barbaric to suggest that 2 moms can’t raise child”
They split when Isabella was 17 months old. Lisa Miller went to Virginia, and the moms entered into an amicable custody plan, with Jenkins driving 8 hour journeys to be with Isabella over weekend. Lisa became an ex-gay born again, and suddenly Jenkins was a sinner.
For the first time we were able to see the authenticity (not that I ever doubted it) of Jenkins’ side, through her expressions of longing and resolve. Janet Jenkins has been through hell and one can only imagine what the child has suffered.
Let us start with the day that Lisa Miller, born again Christian ex-lesbian, embraced and towed at the nose by the remnants of Jerry Farwell via Liberty Church, et al – decided that the other mother, Jenkins was no longer worthy and in Jenkins words “Suddenly I was a sinner.” “She made Isabella call me by my first name instead of mommy.”
With Christian supporting groups claiming that Miller is the perfect mother, what decent parent would subject their own child to a sudden removal, which a child perceives as abandonment, from a parent the child has known and loved from the day the child was born. The child felt pain at that parting- what kind of mother allows that to happen? Based on that alone, Jenkins deserves her custody and the child deserves a rational parent who does not place her need above that of the child.
After hearing Janet Jenkins speak and seeing the Videos on TV, I became more entrenched in my stance, that Miller is not a worthy parent – and that is how the Courts see such severe cases of parental alienation as well – that is why the Courts are perfectly correct to take the child and give her to the one parent that probably would never have alienated the child from the other.
Lisa Miller has got what she deserved. But Isabelle must suffer a loss yet again – simply because of the incompetency of her mother to acknowledge the orders of the Court. The injustice and deprivation of the relationship between Isabella and her mother cannot be rewarded in any way. That is why Miller has lost custody. Biology does not factor in here. These moms had an established relationship and decided to inseminate together.
Any reader who has gone through this process, as a non-bio mom in a lesbian couple knows what an intense process it is and the leap of faith in is to allow the other mother to carry the child, may not seem as such at the time, when in good faith and love it is procure as a act for both parents. But in all cases both lesbian moms really want their baby and trust in the shared parenthood. To simply decide that a mother is not a mother anymore is absolutely heart wrenching and unconscionable on every level.
“I am looking for my daughter and whenever the phone rings I expect it is someone telling me where she is at.” She reminisced that having the baby was “the best high in the world,” as a picture of her beaming face next to the newly born Isabella came up on the screen.
Judge Cohen, Vermont Superior Court in Rutland, has given Lisa until 2/23 to return the child or she could be arrested for contempt. Jenkins is seriously concerned for Isabella’s well being, remarking, “ Lisa is dangerous, vulnerable and desperate and capable of anything.”
“I will not give up,” said Jenkins and Isabella will come home – her room and Christmas gifts are here waiting for her.”
Anyone with information regarding Isabella’s and Lisa’s whereabouts is asked to call the Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678 or the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office at 540-586-4800.
By Melanie Nathan
Nathan@privatecourts.com
www.privatecourts.com
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Get your own turkey baster Janet…Have your own damn kid……
Isabella IS Janet Jenkins’ child in the same way that any parent who uses a donor to have a child inside a union- straight or gay- is the parent of that child.
that must be why there’s amber alerts everywhere and the cops are searching 24/7 huih? Get real.
The judge in the case has scheduled a hearing for next month regarding the issue of the contempt warrant. This is to give the Virginia courts time enough to consider whether or not to issue their own warrant.
Isabella was very upset to leave Janet the last time. Maybe you should consider that in your rampant attempts to shut us up regarding this story.
@Eric,
Heck, I’ll even PAY for the turkey baster. And if Jenkins loves this kid so much how come she never adopted her or moved to VA to be a bigger part of life.
This entire case is a joke.
What you need to do Derek James is pay for your own site to put out your hateful venom… because that was the last one time you get to use this site to do it….
Ah, Amazing, Hello again Derek, come back for another round of abuse? Apparently you did not gather that Jenkins drove all the way to VA to be with Isabella every weekend until Miller decided that she wanted to kick Jenkins out of her life. Of course, that requires you actually give a farthing about what Jenkins did.
YOU just want her to move to VA in order to ensure that Miller could then have been granted sole right and kick Jenkins out of her and Isabella’s life. We went over that one already. We went over just about every single slander and misinformation you could spread in here. Perhaps you should buy your own site and put up your own thoughts there.
Talk about the revolving door. This is how it works; sqeeeeeuak – Lisa Miller’s name appears on LGR and Eric appears. Whoop dee doo.. through the door. He enters the lesbian site where is slander is like water on a ducks back. reads the headline. finds a sentence to comment on. The swish the door starts to spin in time with his mantra – “homo, homo, homo…. ” At speed not even he can keep up with. Here at LGR we are delighted to have him back – because his contribution to our site highlights the ineptitude of a breed of being that rallies to the call of hate. It is so blinding that they cannot do anything by way of discourse – all the can do is spin in their poo.,
ERIC AND DEREK – LOL seem to follow each other everywhere – holding hands yet guys? You certainly are dancing to the same repetitive tune. Afraid to come out? Its usually poeple who are terrified of exposing their own homosexuality that feel the need to constantly attack saying the same thing over and over again, to ensure themselves (only) that THEY are in fact NOT queer!
Damaging or destroying a child’s relationship with his or her other parent is parental alienation — and it doesn’t matter if the parents are straight or gay. Kudos to the judge in this case for recognizing Janet Jenkin’s and Isabelle’s right to be part of each other’s lives. The more we can educate parents (gay and straight), legal and mental health professionals about the destructive affects of parental alienation the more we can help families avoid what this family has gone through. Sincerely, Mike Jeffries, Author, A Family’s Heartbreak: A Parent’s Introduction to Parental Alienation.
I’m new to this site and have a favor to ask. You mention previous articles. I am particularly interested in the chronology of events immediately preceding and following the dissolution of the civil union. Are the specifics of cause public? And how soon after the dissolution did Miller move to VA? What financial loss might Jenkins incur by moving to VA and what affect would that have regarding the jurisdiction of the VT and VA court systems? I guess that’s a lot to ask!! With all the info coming to light in Perry v Schwarzenegger this case also has significant impact.
Mr. Fitch, you can search this site by entering “lisa Miller” Custody and probably will see all the articles that have been written here. Also if you google the case, you will get a lot of information, even access to some of the Court documents.
would the powers that be here mind reposting my 2 comments from a while ago please….i mentioned the judge wouldn’t go ahead with charges about 2-3 weeks ago…he hasn’t….it’s nice to be right. But when you delete posts to prove it, your only allowing one side to be heard. What then is the point of comments? you lose admit it and let’s all move on
They have until the 23rd February Eric to bring the charges
- I dont remember your comments that you say are not here. If they are not up it could be one of two reasons, either you were being impolite/ rude/ insulting – remember this is our site and not yours; or as often happens it may have got caught up in our spam file – sometimes we have time to sort out the spam and see which comments are ligitimate comments, however there are times when there are just too many spams to do that. Glad to see you have so much invested in coming back though. Keep it polite and respectful and you are welcome.
Well obviously it’s time to find a site that doesn’t mind debate….enjoy your one sided retorhic, you should really take down the comment section…what’s it here for? you’ve just labelled yourself as an illegitimate website…and non american. when you don’t allow opposing views, you basically allow others who visit your website to only see one side of the story….very sad…but hey that’s your way, i accept it and this Canadian is moving on. Enjoy patting yourselves on the back you win
Eric can you read,? Maybe thats your problem…. You have been given a voice on this site as you can see.
You have been rude and offensive as you can see. Ypur comments may have automatically gone into spam folder and we have no control over that …GET IT.. Read this site and you will see pleanty of debate. Clearly if you can read you did not get beyond my 1st sentence. I would rather debate with someone who has some intelligence.
Missed that Nightline show last night did ya?
they are looking and you know they are…. and now so are a lot of other people after that aired