Ex-lesbian turned Christian who fled country to protect daughter free after more than year behind bars

 By Heather Clark - Posted at Christian News Network:

LOCKPORT, N.Y. — An ex-lesbian who fled the United States over a decade ago to protect her daughter from having further unsupervised visitations with her former partner is now free after spending more than a year behind bars. She had surrendered herself to authorities in January 2021, months after her daughter turned 18.

“Praise the Lord with us. Our sister, Lisa, has been released,” reports Pablo Yoder, a Mennonite pastor who serves in Nicaragua. “After about thirty minutes of hearing comments from both sides, Judge [Richard] Acara gave Lisa’s sentence as ‘time served’ … [T]he judge agreed with the others, yes, even the prosecution, that it’s time to ‘move on.'”

A reported 50 to 60 Christians were present for the May 23 hearing to support Lisa Miller, who had pled guilty to a charge of “international parental kidnapping” in February 2021. She had been held at the Niagara County Jail in Lockport, New York, about 40 minutes northeast of Buffalo, where she had taken a taxi to Niagara Falls in 2009 with her daughter to cross the border into Canada and then flee to Nicaragua.

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