BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Mennonite pastor worked with a number of other people to help a woman flee the country with her 7-year-old daughter and live in Central America rather than share custody with her former lesbian partner, federal prosecutors said Wednesday in a Vermont courtroom.

Prosecutors opened their case against Kenneth Miller, 46, of Stuarts Draft, Va., with a series of witnesses and cellphone records to establish what they say involved several people in September 2009 to help Lisa Miller and her daughter Isabella out of the country before a judge could transfer custody of the child to Lisa Miller’s former partner.

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