A measure of justice, if not resolution

Hot off the wire:

A pastor from Virginia was convicted Tuesday of helping a woman flee the country three years ago, when she was on the brink of having to turn custody of her young daughter over to the woman who was once her partner in a Vermont civil union.

…[Kenneth] Miller, 46, of Stuarts Draft, Va., was charged with aiding in international kidnapping for helping Lisa Miller and her daughter, Isabella, leave the country in September 2009, a month after a judge indicated he would turn custody of the girl over to Janet Jenkins, of Fair Haven, Vt., if she continued to defy a series of visitation orders.

Sentencing will happen later, and Miller is free until then. Also today, Jenkins filed a civil suit against Kenneth Miller, Lisa Miller (no relation) and a Virginia man who allegedly aided in her escape.

So, a measure of justice is done. Unfortunately, Lisa Miller and Isabella are still at large — believed to be in Nicaragua, which is not a signer of an international treaty on child abductions. Jenkins will continue to be robbed of her relationship with her daughter.

The Rev., I’m sure, would call it the Christian thing to do.