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BURLINGTON — Attorneys are expected to wrap up their defense of a Virginia Mennonite pastor on trial in a Vermont federal court for allegedly helping a woman flee the country with her child rather than share custody with her former lesbian partner.
It’s unclear when the jury could begin deliberating the case of 46-year-old Kenneth Miller of Stuarts, Draft, Va.
Prosecutors say Miller arranged for Lisa Miller and her daughter Isabella to travel from Virginia to Nicaragua via Canada with the help of a number of Mennonites.
Isabella was born in 2002 when Lisa Miller was joined in a civil union with Janet Jenkins, of Fair Haven.
Kenneth Miller’s attorneys say he didn’t know Jenkins had legal parental rights when he helped the mother and daughter flee.

BURLINGTON — An American Mennonite missionary living in Nicaragua is expected to testify in the trial of a Virginia pastor who’s charged with helping a woman flee the United States with her daughter rather than share custody of the girl with the mother’s former lesbian partner in Vermont.
The trial of 46-year-old Kenneth Miller of Stuarts Draft, Va., enters its third day on Thursday.
Miller is accused of helping Lisa Miller and her daughter flee the United States and live with Mennonites in Nicaragua to avoid a court order sharing custody of the child with her former partner Janet Jenkins of Fair Haven.
The two women entered a civil union in Vermont then broke up and got into a long custody battle for the girl.