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Trial to Get Under Way in Civil Union Custody Case

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Lawyers are expected to deliver opening statements in the Vermont trial of a Virginia pastor charged with helping a woman flee the United States with her daughter rather than share custody of the girl with her former lesbian partner.

Forty-six-year-old Kenneth Miller of Stuarts Draft, Va., is charged with helping Lisa Miller flee the United States to avoid having to turn over custody of her daughter to Janet Jenkins of Fair Haven.

Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins fought a five-year custody battle. After Lisa Miller refused to share custody of daughter Isabella, a judge transferred custody of the girl to Jenkins.

Prosecutors say in 2009 Kenneth Miller drove Lisa Miller and Isabella from Virginia to Buffalo, N.Y. where the mother and daughter crossed into Canada and flew to Central America.

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