WICHITA, KAN. – A jury returned guilty verdicts today in the
federal trial of a Russian-born woman accused of unlawfully taking her child
out of the United States and keeping the child away from the child’s father in
Kansas, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
Bogdana Alexandrovna
Mobley, 38, was found guilty on one count of international parental kidnapping
and two counts of attempting to extort money from the child’s father.
During trial, the prosecutor presented evidence that in
April 2014 Mobley took a child of hers (identified as S.M. in court records) to
Russia despite the fact the biological father, Brian Mobley, had been awarded
joint custody in Sedgwick County District Court. At the time, the Mobleys had a
pending divorce case before the court. The defendant did not obtain the
permission of the court or Brian Mobley before going to Russia with the child.
The child still has not returned to the United States.
Between April 2014 and November 2016, the defendant only
permitted Brian Mobley to communicate with S.M. via cell phones and Skype
applications. She told Brian Mobley that he needed to send her money in order
to see the child.
Sentencing is set for May 20. She faces up to three years in
federal prison on the kidnapping charge and up to 20 years on the extortion
counts. The FBI investigated. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Hart is
prosecuting.
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