Missing sisters could be hidden in underground network run by family court critics, police say
Two missing teens from Lakeville, Minnesota, may be hidden by an underground network that distrusts family courts, according to a police officer investigating the case.
Police Lt. Jason Polinski tells the Minneapolis Star Tribune that the people who last saw the girls had an anti-government, anti-family court attitude. He believes a national network associated with the Protective Parent movement may be keeping the girls hidden.
The teens had accused their father of abuse and told a judge overseeing their parents’ divorce that they wanted to live with their mother. A psychologist, however, said the girls had been brainwashed by their mother to hate their father. They were ages 13 and 14 in April 2013 when they ran away from home and disappeared.
According to the Star Tribune, police have served search warrants on three “people of interest” in the case, including a suspended lawyer and family court critic, Dale Nathan. He denied any involvement in the girls’ disappearance. A lawyer representing the girls’ mother, Michelle MacDonald, said the search warrants are “tyranny” and “a form of terrorism.” According to the newspaper, she was also named a person of interest in the case.
Hat tip to the Marshall Project.
