Around 4 a.m. on Tuesday, near security area at the Miami airport, a woman was dealing with her crying four year old son whom she had gotten up super early for a flight.
23-year old Alvina Omisiri Agba from Luton, England, described as ‘British-Nigerian’, approached them and offered to soothe the boy. The mother handed him over briefly. She was a kind stranger! But once Agba was holding the child, she started walking away.
- The mother demanded her son back, and Agba declared, “No, this is my child”
- Agba wrapped her arms and legs around the boy, grabbed his leg, and shoved the mother away when she tried to reclaim him.
- The mother pulling on the child while Agba clung to him. The boy screamed loudly.
Miami Airport Security Checkpoint
An employee stepped in, pulled the boy free and took him behind the ticket counter to protect him. Agba chased them and tried to crawl under the counter. Three passengers, seeing this, positioned themselves between Agba and the employee so that the abductor couldn’t gain access to the child.
Airport personnel called 911, but Agba fled the scene. She was located at Checkpoint 5 in the airport and arrested. The boy sustained deep scratches to his neck but was ok. The family made their flight.
Miami Airport
Agba told officers she took the child because “God told her to do it,” claiming she believed a rainbow wall in the terminal would calm him. She insisted she wasn’t drunk, and said she remembered very little of the incident.
She turns out to be an English teacher in Costa Rica. She was charged with interference with custody and two counts of battery and was booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with bond set at $3,500.
(HT: Joe R.)
Gotta hand it to her for trying the ‘sky daddy’ defense.
Well, folks, if the goons at the Heritage Foundation get their way, we’ll all be living in a (white) Christian theocracy, soon enough, so, we might as well get used to this ‘defense’ becoming the norm…
Or, we can defend our current system, freedom of and from religion, separation of church and state, etc.
Really a coin toss in 2025, eh?
Not defending her frightening actions, but it looks schizophrenic. Hope the child won’t remember much of this incident.
The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.
–Robert Heinlein
No snatching as far as I could tell from the story. The mother voluntarily turned the child over to the custody of Alvina Omisiri Agba.
I never doubt when people tell me that “god told them.” [Lower case g on purpose]. Unfortunately, god tells me they are wrong, so I win.
From l experience, if an individual tells you god is directly speaking to them, get help. I understand that in the present Christan National climate this may be more difficult to discern. But there are hallmarks of schizophrenia that should not be ignored, and can become quickly dangerous.
MIA – checks out.
Was she a doctor, scientist or engineer?
@JNS – can you read? She refused to give the child back when requested.
It’s like when you agree to loan your lawn mower to a neighbor and they refuse to return it.
“Beyond the scope of consent” is a common legal principle
This is the problem with religion: she is TOTALLY correct if it was a revelation from a supreme being.
How dare anyone question the word of God?
Is she any less a prophet than Moses or Mohammed?
(Jesus built my hot rod.)
Miami Airport? Check. Drunk or addled woman? Check. American Airlines standing in for Spirit? Check.
These stories almost write themselves.
God should now put her in jail for a long time.
Read that as “brutish” and thought interesting..but apt description.
Why would anyone in their right mind hand their child over to a total stranger? Instances like this show why that displays very poor judgement.