US mother accused of abducting children, then posing as father
ABC News
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Two children who had been living in North Carolina with their mother — who allegedly passed herself off as a man and asked the kids to call her Daddy — have been reunited with their father and will return home to Arizona.
Ernest Karnes and his ex-wife, Shellie White, had joint custody of their two children when White left their home state of Arizona in 2003, taking Erica, then 5, and Dusty, then 3. Tracked to Roanoke Rapids, N.C., White was arrested at her home on Friday.
"At the time we spotted Shellie White walking into an address that we had under surveillance and we made entry into the residence and took her into custody and retrieved the children, she was acting as a man and living her lifestyle as a man," said U.S. Marshal Tex Lindsey, who arrested White.
White said that her masculine appearance was nothing new, and that she had even considered a sex-change operation for a time.
The U.S. Marshals Service said that White was using her ex-husband's name and identity at one point, as well as other male aliases while on the run. White denied she was ever in hiding. The children were reunited with their father on Monday. Karnes said that his ex-wife did not look like a man when they were married.
Mar 28, 2006
ABC News
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Two children who had been living in North Carolina with their mother — who allegedly passed herself off as a man and asked the kids to call her Daddy — have been reunited with their father and will return home to Arizona.
Ernest Karnes and his ex-wife, Shellie White, had joint custody of their two children when White left their home state of Arizona in 2003, taking Erica, then 5, and Dusty, then 3. Tracked to Roanoke Rapids, N.C., White was arrested at her home on Friday.
"At the time we spotted Shellie White walking into an address that we had under surveillance and we made entry into the residence and took her into custody and retrieved the children, she was acting as a man and living her lifestyle as a man," said U.S. Marshal Tex Lindsey, who arrested White.
White said that her masculine appearance was nothing new, and that she had even considered a sex-change operation for a time.
The U.S. Marshals Service said that White was using her ex-husband's name and identity at one point, as well as other male aliases while on the run. White denied she was ever in hiding. The children were reunited with their father on Monday. Karnes said that his ex-wife did not look like a man when they were married.
Mar 28, 2006
