article_snippet: The fate of their baby, Talhah, now five, remains at the center of a dispute being heard in federal appellate court this week.
article_snippet: Chesser was behind bars and Nzabanita was facing deportation when Chesser mother initiated custody proceedings, but both still enjoyed full parental rights, and both 'opposed placing Chesser with Chesser grandparents, who did not share Chesser and his wife's conservative Islamic beliefs,' Chesser court-appointed attorney, Wayne LaFond, says in both appeal.
article_snippet: But Chesser is not seeking custody.
article_snippet: Talhah was born in November 2009 to Chesser and Talhah wife, a woman Talhah met at a mosque in Washington, DC.
article_snippet: This time, Nzabanita dropped off Chesser and the baby to make the trip without the baby.
article_snippet: Soon thereafter, Chesser won full custody of the boy after a judge declared Chesser and Nzabanita to be unfit parents.
highlights_snippet: His wife, a Ugandan diplomat's daughter son Talhah, now five, is being raised by his mother Barbara Chesser .
  