A crazed Utah mom allegedly kidnapped her 4 kids and took them to Europe, fearing the “finish instances” had been close to, as her ex-husband fights to convey the kids again dwelling.
Surveillance footage captured Elleshia Anne Seymour boarding a one-way worldwide flight to Croatia with the 4 children in tow at Salt Lake Metropolis Worldwide Airport on Nov. 30, in line with ABC4.
The Delta Airways flight was certain for the Balkan nation with a cease in Amsterdam.
The 35-year-old mom, who’s believed to be someplace in Europe, shares partial custody of the youngsters together with her two ex-husbands.
Officers solely realized Seymour and the youngsters had been lacking when she missed work and stopped answering messages, which led to a welfare test at her dwelling on Dec. 2.
The identical day, Seymour left a voicemail with one of many fathers, saying that she was with the youngsters in France, the place she deliberate to safe everlasting residence as a result of the “finish instances” had been close to, the outlet reported.
Seymour’s ex-husband, Kendall Seymour, has accused her of abducting their kids abroad.
“To place it bluntly, my youngsters have been kidnapped abroad by their mom,” her ex-husband, Kendall Seymour, wrote on GoFundMe.
“My ex-wife flew to Europe, kidnapping all three of my youngsters and her fourth youngster from one other dad. We didn’t be taught till Tuesday, Dec. 2, that anybody was lacking,” Kendall Seymour wrote on GoFundMe.
The youngsters vary between the ages of three and 11. Kendall Seymour shares the three oldest together with his ex-wife. They’ve been recognized as Landon Hal Seymour, who turned 11 on Dec. 13, Levi Parker Seymour, 8, Hazel Rae Seymour, 7, and Jacob Kurt Brady, 3.
The Utah Division of Public Security issued an endangered and lacking advisory for the youngsters on Dec. 10, itemizing Seymour because the abductor after leaving her automobile on the airport and fleeing the nation.
The anxious father alleged Seymour had solid passport paperwork for the youngsters and left a observe “dictating a delusional message from God,” that promised she could be in Italy by Christmas.
A to-do record was additionally left behind at her home, seemingly reminding Seymour to “shred paperwork, destroy figuring out photographs, throw away telephone, buy pre-paid telephone.”
Seymour has since been charged with 4 counts of custodial interference, a third-degree felony, in line with the Utah State Legislature.
A short lived emergency protecting order and a no-bail arrest warrant had been issued for the mom.
The FBI is helping the native police with the investigation and Kendall Seymour hopes the state warrant is was a federal warrant that will enable INTERPOL to create an arrest warrant for the mom.
“Hopefully, the subsequent step is I get a telephone name that she’s been discovered after which I can fly out and discover the youngsters. As quickly as that occurs, me and my fiancé had been going to drop every little thing and go get them.”
He began the fundraiser so he might fly to Europe to select up the youngsters to “reduce the trauma” as soon as his ex-wife is arrested.
“Any funds obtained in extra of flight prices will go in the direction of remedy wanted due to this traumatic expertise,” the GoFundMe learn. “My real hope is that the youngsters are discovered rapidly, and we will choose them up whereas they nonetheless suppose they’re on a trip.
“If we will be there to get them asap after mother is arrested, they may really feel safer and won’t undergo as a lot questioning what’s going to occur to them, to their mother, and to their future,” Kendall Seymoour mentioned. “She hasn’t been situated, however the FBI has good individuals engaged on it who love their job, and dealing along with household connections will get the youngsters dwelling as quickly as attainable.”
A household lawyer believes the at-large mom might face severe authorized issues when she is discovered.
“She’s chasing 4 felony counts, assuming that is the primary time this has occurred and [if] she has some psychological well being issues, then she is probably going not any jail time in any respect,” Marco Brown advised ABC4. “What I believe is extra doubtless is that they get the youngsters again to america and in the event that they share 50-50 custody, then he (Kendall Seymour) goes and modifies the custody, so he will get the vast majority of it and holds the youngsters’ passports.”
