‘Absolutely insane story’: Trump deploys jet to Cuba to rescue child allegedly kidnapped by trans father

The Trump administration has facilitated the rescue of a child allegedly kidnapped by a transgender parent by dispatching a jet to Cuba to pick up the 10-year-old, who already had been located there by Cuba authorities helping in the operation.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Utah confirmed that there also are two suspects in custody as a result of the operation, including the young boy’s father, who identifies as a woman, and has been thought to be grooming the boy for transgenderism.

“Rose Inessa-Ethington aka Eri Ethington, 42, and Blue Inessa-Ethington, aka Carly Ann Crosby, 32, both of Cache County, Utah, were deported from Cuba on Monday with the assistance of the FBI. Upon landing in the United States, the two defendants appeared in court for an arraignment in Richmond, Virginia, and will be transported to the District of Utah at a later date for the remainder of their court case at the Orrin G. Hatch United States District Courthouse in downtown Salt Lake City,” federal authorities said.

The family feared the father, Eri Ethington, was taking his son to Cuba for “gender reassignment surgery,” authorities said.

The suspects are accused of allegedly skipping out on a planned camping trip to Canada with a shared custody child and instead taking the 10-year-old to Havana, Cuba, without the biological mother’s knowledge or court approval.

On March 28, the child was supposed to be traveling by car to Calgary in 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, prosecutors said.

They never arrived at the hotel where they were expected to be in Calgary.

They disappeared after the 10-year-old told his biological mother via telephone they arrived in Canada.

At the time the mother shared custody with her former spouse. On April 3, the boy was scheduled to rejoin his biological mother, but never arrived.

Court complaints outline how the group went to Canada, then immediately took a flight to Mexico City and then boarded another jet to Havana.

“Mexican immigration authorities confirmed their arrival and departures utilizing their U.S. passports,” the government said.

Trans woman, partner accused of kidnapping her 10-year-old child for possible gender reassignment surgery in Cuba https://t.co/eek74Sghet pic.twitter.com/d0son7RnAS

— New York Post (@nypost) April 22, 2026

Absolutely insane story

The FBI just rescued a 10-year-old child who was KIDNAPPED and taken to Cuba by a TRANSGENDER parent to undergo m*tilation surgery.

Rose Inessa-Ethington, a man pretending to be a woman and the child’s biological father, was arrested along with his…

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 22, 2026

“As alleged in court documents, interviews with the 10-year-old’s family provided significant concerns for the minor’s well-being, as the child was born male, however, identified as a female child, which family members largely believed to be due to manipulation by Rose. Concerns existed that the child was transported to Cuba for gender reassignment surgery prior to puberty,” the U.S. attorney’s office noted.

A state court in Utah responded with an order returning the boy to his mother and giving her exclusive custody, but he was not returned. On April 16, law enforcement in Cuba located the group.

Melissa Holyoak, first assistant U.S. attorney for the district, said, “We are grateful to law enforcement for working swiftly to return the child to the biological mother.”

The case is being investigated by the FBI Salt Lake City Field Office. The U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Services and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Enforcement and Removal Operations in Havana played a key role in recovering the minor victim safely, along with the FBI’s Mexico City Law Enforcement Attache Office.

A report from the Gateway Pundit commented the Trump administration took the “extraordinary step” of sending government Boeing 757 directly to Cuba to bring the boy home safely.

“He has now been reunited with his biological mother,” the report said.