LONDON, Ky. — A federal indictment issued last summer but only unsealed today accuses the father of a Perry County child of international parental kidnapping.
Michael Gregory McCoy is accused of keeping his daughter in Turkey for over two years, in order to keep the child from her mother, Melinda Riddle McCoy. The charge carries a maximum prison sentence of three years.
Very few details about the case have been made public in court, but Melinda McCoy, who now lives in New York, has led an online battle for her daughter’s return at teambabycakes.com.
She has not seen her daughter since July of 2015, when she says Michael McCoy told her he was taking her on vacation.
No hearings have been scheduled in the case. However, today’s unsealing, coupled with a request by prosecutors for certified copies of the arrest warrant to be used in extradition proceedings, would seem to indicate that Michael McCoy has been arrested.
