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Authorities: Mom abducted kids, posed as dad


By MARTHA WAGGONER
The Associated Press
March 28. 2006 8:00AM


A North Carolina mother charged with abducting her two children was accused of posing as a man while on the run. And authorities say the heavyset woman with cropped hair and a slight mustache even had the kids calling her "Daddy."

Shellie White, 30, said it was all a misunderstanding, claiming in a jail interview that she never tried to hide her identity or change her appearance.

White was arrested in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., on Friday, more than two years after she allegedly took her children from Arizona. Investigators said she and another woman were living together as the children's father and mother.

In a statement, the U.S. Marshals Service said White had "radically changed her appearance to that of a man."

"She even went so far as to tell her children, aged 3 and 5 at the time, that she was their father,"the Marshals Service said. "When she was arrested, the children, now aged 6 and 8, asked why they were arresting their Daddy."

She is 5-foot-9 and 280 pounds (Geezuz, she weighs almost twice what I do! --Ed.), wears her hair closely cropped, and has a slight mustache and stubble. She blamed the facial hair on a hormone disorder. White said she had considered a sex-change operation but decided against it because of the cost. She denied it was part of any scheme to avoid police.

White said she made no effort to convince her children she was their father. She admitted telling her 6-year-old son to tell children at his school she was his father, but she said that was only because they teased him about her appearance.




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