FBI Rescues Child Kidnapped to Cuba by Transgender Parent
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has rescued a ten-year-old boy who was allegedly taken to Cuba by his biological father and his father’s girlfriend without the knowledge of the boy’s mother.
The unnamed biological boy, who reportedly identified as a “girl,” was supposed to go on a camping trip to Canada with his biological father, Rose Inessa-Ethington, also known as Eri Ethington, according to a news release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah.
Rose, along with Rose’s partner, Blue Inessa-Ethington (also known as Carly Ann Crosby), and Blue’s three- and ten-year-old children were allegedly “supposed to travel by car to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, for a planned camping trip,” but they “never arrived” at the hotel or campground for their stay between March 29 and April 2, 2026, according to the press release.
Instead, the group allegedly “crossed the U.S.-Canada border” on March 29 and then “took a flight from Vancouver, Canada to Mexico City, Mexico.” A few days later, on April 1, the group “took another flight from Mérida, Mexico, to Havana, Cuba,” court documents state, according to the press release:
According to court documents, on March 28, 2026, a 10-year-old child was supposed to drive to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, for a planned camping trip with the minor victim’s biological father, Rose Inessa-Ethington, Rose’s partner, Blue, and Blue’s 3-year-old child. But the group never arrived at their hotel in Calgary or the campground where they planned to stay from March 29 to April 2, 2026. As alleged, the group had not been heard from since March 28, 2026, when the 10-year-old told his biological mother by phone that he had arrived in Canada. The biological mother shares custody of the 10-year-old girl with Rose, her ex-partner. On April 3, 2026, the child was supposed to be returned to his biological mother after the Calgary camping trip, according to the court-ordered custody agreement, which did not happen.
According to court documents, on March 29, 2026, the group crossed the Canada-US border and took a flight from Vancouver, Canada to Mexico City, Mexico. On April 1, 2026, the group took another flight from Mérida, Mexico to Havana, Cuba. Mexican immigration authorities confirmed their arrival and departure using their U.S. passports. As court documents allege, interviews with the 10-year-old’s family raised significant concerns about the minor’s well-being because the child was born male but was identified as a girl, which family members believed was largely due to manipulation by Rose. Concerns existed that the child had been transported to Cuba for sex reassignment surgery before puberty. On April 13, 2026, a Utah state court ordered the 10-year-old returned immediately to the child’s mother and awarded the mother sole custody of the child. On April 16, 2026, Cuban law enforcement located the group in Cuba.
According to the press release, Rose and Blue “are in federal custody” and have been “charged in a federal criminal complaint with international parental abduction.”
In court filings, the FBI allegedly “described an elaborate, multi-country kidnapping plot involving $10,000 in cash,” the New York Times reported.
As local law enforcement in Utah, along with FBI officials such as FBI Special Agent Jennifer Waterfield, launched an investigation, evidence was allegedly found of “a planned operation following a search”:
Local Utah police and the FBI began investigating, with Ms. Waterfield, the special agent, detailing what the government said was evidence of a planned operation following a search of their home: $10,000 in cash removed and “to-do” lists detailing plans to empty bank accounts, learn Spanish, obtain tourist visas and store items.
Investigators also said they found notes containing instructions from a Washington, D.C., mental health therapist related to “gender-affirming medical care for children” and a request to send $10,000 to the therapist.
“Our priority in every parental abduction case is the safety and well-being of the child,” said Robert Bohls, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Salt Lake City Division.
