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muriel_volestrangler

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2. The arrest was done by Cuban law enforcement
Wed Apr 22, 2026, 05:27 AM
Apr 22

They seem to have agreed the child had been improperly taken to Cuba; the child went back to the USA and is with their biological mother.

However, the group never arrived at their hotel in Calgary or at their reserved campground. The 10-year-old told their mother on March 10 that they had arrived in Canada and was supposed to be returned to the mother’s custody on April 3, but was not.

It was determined that the group had crossed the U.S.-Canada Border and took a flight from Vancouver to Mexico City. Then, on April 1, they took another flight from Merida, Mexico to Havana, Cuba.

On April 13, ten days after the 10-year-old was supposed to be with his mother, the Utah court ordered that the mother be granted exclusive custody of the child. On April 16, Cuban law enforcement successfully located the group in Cuba, ensuring the child’s return to their mother.

“We are grateful to law enforcement for working swiftly to return the child to the biological mother,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Melissa Holyoak for the District of Utah.

https://www.abc4.com/news/crime/two-arrested-child-kidnapping-alleged-gender-reassignment-surgery/

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