Maryland Refused To Give Back A Virginia Runaway Because Her Parents ‘Misgendered’ Her. Then She Was Sex Trafficked, Mother Says.

A transgender 14-year old ranaway from Virginia suffered a six-month nightmare. She was twice taken by sex traffickers. The second time, Baltimore bureaucrats refused her return to her home state. They had accused her adoptive parents. “misgendering” According to The Daily Wire records, she was.

After the death of her father, Sage was adopted by Michele Blair, her biological grandmother. Sage started identifying herself as a man named after her father, who was long-term troubled. “Draco” In late August 2021, she ran from their rural home, only to find herself on the streets of Baltimore. According to records, authorities saved her from a convicted of sex offenders. Maryland officials placed the child in an inner-city home instead of returning her to her grandmother. The reason: They thought her adoptive, blood-relative parents didn’t seem to sufficiently recognize her transgender identity.

“It is not possible to return the child to that home,” Judge Robert B. Kershaw was notified of his decision on Sept. 3, 2021 by Anesa Khan, Baltimore Assistant Public Defender.

Sage was instead turned over by the Baltimore City Department of Juvenile Services. “for placement in a hardware secure therapeutic facility which makes reasonable accommodation for Respondent’s expressed male gender and desire to live as a trans male.”

Sage ran away less than one week after being placed into a foster home. However, she returned to Texas where she was once more trafficked to pedophiles according to court records. According to an ethics case Blair filed against Khan, Lone Star officials handed Sage to her parents. Khan allegedly told the girl to lie about being abused by her parents, seemingly in order to create a legal precedent allowing states—other than where a teen lives—to refuse to return a runaway teen if transgender issues are in play.

Sage was used to being the object of an interstate tug of war driven by an ideological, leftist bureaucracy. Sage’s grandmother told police how the vicious spiral started for her child, whom she still hopes to raise.

“I went to wake up my daughter,” Blair said, describing the morning of Aug. 25, 2021 in an Appomattox County Sheriff’s Office report. “She was gone and the [window] screen had been cut open! I immediately looked everywhere then drove to Appomattox Sheriff to report Sage missing.”

Sage would reveal later that she sneaked out to meet a 16-year old boy who loved skateboarding. The person she met was a sex offenders who had been grooming Sage online. They took her to Washington, and then to Baltimore. A frantic search that included the sheriff’s office, FBI, Virginia State Police, and the U.S. A week later, the Marshals were able to end their frantic search that included the FBI, Virginia State Police, and the U.S. Marshals when Sage was discovered in Baltimore with Kenneth Fisher (a 36-year-old convicted sex offenders). Sage suffered untold horror during the week that she was missing.

“When Sage was delivered to this man, he told my daughter that she was now ‘part of his family,’” Blair would write a victim impact letter later. “Sage replied that she was only 14-years-old and to ‘please don’t rape me.’ To which Kenneth Fisher immediately took her into his bedroom and violently raped her. He enjoyed strangling her but not quite to death. This sick man trafficked her to so many men that Sage lost count.”

Fisher, who was previously arrested for sex crimes including rape and had been released from Eastern Correctional Institution East, is now being held. He would not be the only adult to exploit Sage.

Blair drove all night to get Sage after she was found. However, the city of Baltimore stated that Sage was being held in jail for her running away. Khan was Khan’s court-appointed attorney, and her LinkedIn page says that “Defense attorneys became the heroes of justice, as they were called to stand in the gap between the coercive power of the [State] and the relatively limited power of the indigent accused, who were and still are disproportionately [B]lack and Latin[x].”

Khan persuaded Judge Kershaw to keep Sage in Virginia. Blair, a court-appointed child advocate for many years, is ironically the ideal trusted parent. Yet the Maryland juvenile court maintained that her home was abusive even after a local Virginia agency’s investigation found no mistreatment. Blair believes Khan was intent on making her daughter a poster child in the fight for transgender rights above parental rights—no matter the cost.

Aneesa Khan, Baltimore Assistant Public Defender. / LinkedIn

A week after ruling that Sage could not be sent back to Virginia, Kershaw received a form asserting Blair’s right