Utah doomsday mom arrested abroad after allegedly abducting four kids, dumping them in European orphanage

A Utah parent obsessed with doomsday prophecies has been arrested overseas aft allegedly kidnapping her 4 young children and abandoning them successful a Croatian orphanage, triggering an planetary ineligible conflict to bring the kids home.

Elleshia Anne Seymour, 35, was taken into custody successful Dubrovnik, Croatia, connected Jan. 16, the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office confirmed to Fox News Digital. Prosecutors said they are present moving with national partners to research extradition options, though nary timeline has been announced.

Seymour is charged successful Utah with 4 counts of custodial interference — removing kid from state, each third-degree felonies, aft authorities accidental she took her children retired of the state without the consent of their fathers and failed to instrumentality them for court-ordered visitation.

Officials accidental Seymour boarded a one-way formation from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam connected Nov. 29 earlier traveling connected to Croatia with the children. Investigators allege the deadline for her to instrumentality the children to their fathers had "long since elapsed," and some fathers told constabulary they ne'er agreed to let the children to permission the authorities oregon the country.

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Seymour's children are shown successful a household photograph with her ex-husband, Kendall Seymour. Authorities said the children were aboriginal recovered successful a Croatian orphanage aft being taken overseas by their mother. (GoFundMe)

According to Kendall Seymour, the begetter of 3 of the children, the household did not recognize the kids were missing until days aft they had already been taken overseas.

"On Sunday, Nov. 30, my ex-wife flew to Europe, kidnapping each 3 of my kids and her 4th kid from different dad," Seymour wrote successful his archetypal GoFundMe post. "We didn’t larn until Tuesday, Dec. 2, that anyone was missing."

Court records amusement a no-bail apprehension warrant was issued successful December aft prosecutors argued Seymour posed a formation hazard and a information to her children.

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Photos amusement the missing Seymour children alongside a abstracted representation of their mother. Authorities said the children were allegedly taken overseas by their parent and aboriginal recovered astatine an orphanage successful Croatia. (GoFundMe)

According to charging documents, officers aboriginal recovered Seymour’s flat unlocked and abandoned, her conveyance parked astatine Salt Lake City International Airport, and a notebook outlining plans to discard phones and documents. Kendall Seymour said his ex-wife allegedly forged passport paperwork for the children and near down what helium described arsenic a delusional enactment claiming she had received a connection from God promising she would beryllium successful Italy by Christmas.

He besides said constabulary recovered a handwritten to-do database that included instructions to "shred paperwork," "destroy identifying photos," "throw distant phone," and "purchase pre-paid phone."

In a voicemail near for Kendall Seymour days aft disappearing, Elleshia Seymour allegedly claimed she was successful France and said she needed to get the children retired due to the fact that the "end times" were coming, according to police.

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Kendall Seymour is shown with his children successful an undated household photograph taken anterior to their alleged abduction. (GoFundMe)

The children were yet located successful Croatia and placed into a state-run orphanage.

Now, Kendall Seymour has flown to Europe successful a hopeless effort to bring them home.

In a Jan. 25 update posted to a GoFundMe campaign, Seymour said the children stay "trapped successful Croatia successful a state-run orphanage" arsenic helium works to unafraid their merchandise from authorities custody.

"We are successful the country, trying to get the kids retired of the custody of the section government," helium wrote, adding that the household has been forced to prosecute Croatian lawyers who specialize successful planetary kid abduction cases, record applications nether the Hague Convention, wage for court-approved translators, and widen their enactment overseas indefinitely.

Seymour said the fundraiser’s archetypal extremity has already been consumed by question costs unsocial and warned that aboriginal expenses — including therapy — stay unknown.

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"Who knows however overmuch wealth is going to beryllium needed for therapy for the 5 of us, aft this is each over," helium wrote.

He besides revealed that a 5th American child, who had been traveling with Seymour and her children, is housed astatine the aforesaid orphanage. That kid has not been publically identified, and Seymour said his ineligible concern is "even much difficult," requiring further ineligible strategy and assistance.

Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime. Send communicative tips to [email protected].