The 4 younger siblings who have been allegedly kidnapped to Europe by their doomsday mom and dumped in a Croatian orphanage have returned house to Utah with their dad after a two-month manhunt.
Kendall Seymour shared the thrilling information Sunday that he picked up his three youngsters and their half-brother after police arrested his ex-wife, Elleshia Anne Seymour.
“WE ARE TAKING THE KIDS HOME!” the elated father wrote in an replace on GoFundMe Sunday. “After a lot work from SO many individuals, the Social Companies workers knowledgeable us that the police had completed their investigation, returned the kids’s passports, and gave us the go forward to select up the youngsters from the kids’s group house within the morning! We’re all excited to get again to (largely) regular life.”
Seymour’s 35-year-old ex-wife was satisfied the world was ending and hustled her 4 youngsters – Landon Hal Seymour, 11, Levi Parker Seymour, 8, Hazel Rae Seymour, 7, and Jacob Kurt Brady, 3, – onto a Croatia-bound Delta Airways flight out of Salt Lake Metropolis Worldwide Airport on Nov. 30.
Seymour, who shares the three eldest children together with his ex-wife, first sounded the alarm on the lacking household after they have been reported lacking on Dec. 2.
He claimed the mom of 4 cast passport paperwork for the kids and left two ominous notes at house, together with a “delusional message from God promising her she could be in Italy by Christmas,” and a to-do record.
The kids have been discovered “trapped in Croatia in a state-run orphanage” earlier than Elleshia Seymour was arrested within the nation.
Seymour celebrated the victory on GoFundMe, sharing images of himself beaming together with his youngsters as they ate on the streets of Croatia earlier than flying again house.
One of many footage captured Seymour in a decent embrace together with his oldest little one.
One other picture confirmed little Jacob, whom Elleshia Seymour shares with one other man, consuming a hamburger.
“Thanks SO MUCH to everybody who has helped us find and struggle for these children. By no means, form, or kind may we have now accomplished this with out all of you and our wonderful community of household and buddies. We don’t even know the place we might be (or the place the youngsters could be) with out you all,” he wrote.
A fifth American little one who traveled together with his mom, Elleshia Seymour and the 4 children was discovered on the orphanage. It was not clear the connection she had with the unidentified minor, however was mentioned to have traveled with the kids and “his mom.”
Kendall Seymour revealed the fifth little one was not handed over to him, however he arrange a brand new telephone for the child and gave out vital contact information.
“We sadly don’t have an official replace on the fifth little one, however we’re reserving funds for any authorized assist he must get himself into scenario, wherever he considers house to be.”
Seymour mentioned the minor was anxious about his household and buddies pondering “they most likely assume I’m lifeless.”
“We’ve bought him a good telephone with a plan. Fortunately, he was capable of log again into his outdated apps and reconnect with the chums he hasn’t spoken to in a number of weeks. We put our contacts in his telephone in order that he can attain out to us for assist at any time,” he added.
Seymour and his household mentioned he made donations to the orphanage after youngsters dwelling there complained about sure issues the power was lacking.
“We hope to have the ability to discover different methods to present again, not solely as a result of they served our youngsters with love and care, but additionally to attempt to enhance the lives of these youngsters left behind,” he wrote.
