Judge: Mindy Mccready Violated Custody Order

Country singer Mindy McCready said Thursday she would not bring her 5-year-old son back from Tennessee to Florida, despite violating a custody arrangement and a judge’s order.

McCready took the boy during a recent visit at her father’s southwest Florida home and a judge signed an order Thursday ordering authorities to take the boy into custody and return him. It’s not yet clear whether she could face criminal charges.

“I’m doing all this to protect Zander, not stay out of trouble,” McCready wrote in an email to The Associated Press on Thursday. “I don’t think I should be in trouble for protecting my son in the first place.”

McCready says she is in Tennessee and it is looking less likely that she will bring her son back to Florida. She says she cannot travel because she’s nearly seven months pregnant with twins. There was no answer at a Nashville address for McCready.

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Performing in Nashville in this undated photograph.

The judge’s order means law enforcement anywhere can pick up Zander and bring him back to Florida.