Utah Mother Charged in Child Abduction to Europe

A Utah mother faces felony charges after allegedly abducting her four young children and fleeing with them to Europe on November 30, driven by her belief that the end times were imminent and Salt Lake City faced destruction. Elleshia Anne Seymour, 35, from West Jordan, boarded a one-way Delta Airlines flight from Salt Lake City International Airport to Croatia, with a layover in Amsterdam, taking along her sons Landon Hal Seymour, 11, Levi Parker Seymour, 8, and daughter Hazel Rae Seymour, 7, as well as 3-year-old Jacob Kurt Brady, whose biological father is different from Kendall Seymour, the father of the three older children.

The disappearance came to light on December 2, when colleagues reported Seymour had not shown up for work and stopped responding to messages, prompting a welfare check at her home. Officers found the front door unlocked and the residence empty, with Seymour's car left at the airport. Security footage confirmed she and the children had passed through the airport and boarded the flight. That same day, Seymour left a voicemail for one of the fathers, stating the children were in France and that she planned to secure permanent residency there ahead of the...