Case Update (2020): US v. Mobley; International Criminal Kidnapping, Extortion, Restitution
A recent 10th Circuit Case, United States v. Mobley , addressed an appeal of a crime that related back to the mother's abduction of her children to Russia. Mobley (Father) and Osipova (Mother) had a daughter. Shortly after Mobley filed for divorce in Kansas, Osipova abducted their daughter to Russia. At the time of the abduction (April 2, 2014), Osipova was seven months pregnant with the couple's second child. She gave birth 2 months after her arrival in Russia. Two weeks after the abduction, the Father secured a sole custody order from Kansas related to the eldest child. Shortly after the youngest child's birth in Russia, the father secured a divorce and sole custody order from Kansas for that child. (Note - this is a criminal case, so I am not clear how the Kansas court had jurisdiction under the UCCJEA over the youngest child to issue an initial child-custody determination). In Spring 2015, Osipova secured a divorce, and custody and chil...