Found Safe Canada - Kaydance Etchells, 2, Saanich, BC, 8 May 2016

[los2188]

B.C. woman hunts for missing toddler taken from country by estranged wife and sperm donor

Tasha Brown calls her daughter Kaydance “a sparkling gem, a little miracle.” And then she begins to cry. Brown is frantic with worry, because her two-year-old is missing.

Brown began to suspect in early May that her estranged wife had defied a court order and fled Canada with their daughter, who was conceived with the help of a sperm donor father.

That suspicion was confirmed days later, when police in Saanich, B.C., discovered that Lauren Etchells, 31, a Canadian-British dual citizen, had managed to board a WestJet flight in Vancouver with Kaydance, arriving the next morning in Gatwick Airport, outside London.

They hadn’t travelled alone. Also on board WestJet Flight 0022 was Etchells’ old chum and new love interest, a South African man named Marco van der Merwe, and a second child named Marcus, a son born to Etchells and van der Merwe just a month earlier in a Victoria-area hospital.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...rom-country-by-estranged-wife-and-sperm-donor

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/n...en+from+country+estranged/12241073/story.html​

 

[iliketotalk15]

Apparently, Kaydance's other 'mother' wrote a blog to give her side. Really strange. I'm surprised there is not more info out there.

 

[kmclaren]

There was a news conference today and the Saanich police announced that Kaydance has been located in the UK. She will likely be returned to Canada since she was taken out of the country in violation of a court order...

Parental Child Abduction - UPDATE

Vancouver Island mother overjoyed missing daughter found safe in Europe

 

[Tortoise]

Etchells was convicted of two charges of causing risk of harm to her children.

[...] her legal team indicated they would immediately appeal the conviction.

It means she will stay in Jersey for the forseable future as any return to the UK would lead to her arrest on child abduction charges filed by her ex-wife in Canada.

British mother who tried to cross the Channel with her two children in dinghy avoids jail | Daily Mail Online

 

[amayla]

I can’t believe Kaydance has not been reunited with her mother Tasha Brown. Last I read is Tasha got to visit with Kaydance but could not say that she was her other mother. I’m surprised this hasn’t had much more media attention.

 

[amayla]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...er-snatched-child-lesbian-mother-fleeing.html
Tale of morality behind mother guilty of snatching her child from other lesbian mother and fleeing | Daily Mail Online

 

[Tortoise]

Tale of morality behind mother guilty of snatching her child from other lesbian mother and fleeing | Daily Mail Online

This was stated in the article you linked:

"She [Lauren Etchells] has a child custody case on January 17 — three days before the sentencing."

I'm wondering if child custody cases are subject to reporting restrictions?