Federal Way resident Sandra Boughner hasn’t seen her infant daughter Rahda since October. The baby’s currently in Spain with her father, a former NBA basketball player from Federal Way, Michael Deangelo Dickerson.

Boughner would not speak to the details surrounding the custody battle per her attorney’s recommendations but confirmed the case at hand.

Her friends recently set up a gofundme.com account, a website that allows users to request funds for causes, in hopes to raise $50,000 toward legal fees Boughner is expected to accrue.

The site currently has $1,025 in donations.

“She basically just fell in love with the wrong guy,” said her friend Je Myung, one of the organizers of the crowd funding account. “It’s frustrating for me because even while she was in Spain, I was like, ‘Why don’t you go to the police?’”

Myung and Boughner have been best friends since high school. Myung attended Thomas Jefferson High School, while Boughner attended Federal Way High School.

Myung said Dickerson and her friend have had an on-again, off-again relationship throughout the last 10 years with alleged issues of controlling behavior.

But their relationship didn’t start to worry her until Boughner took a trip that would change her life.

The two had gotten engaged, Myung said, and the trip was meant to be a spiritual one to deepen their faith in Hare Krishna. They planned on visiting India, Thailand and Spain.

“I thought that’s great, you get to travel the world,” Myung said. “But we didn’t know she was pregnant. Rahda was born on July 5, so she was pregnant during that time.”

It got more alarming for family and friends when they weren’t able to get ahold of her because they hadn’t spoken to her for months at a time. They eventually reported her missing with the belief that she was forbidden from contacting them.

“Around July or just before August is when she finally reached out,” Myung said, noting her friend had been to India, had Rahda in Thailand and was now visiting Spain, staying with Dickerson’s cousin. “She was telling him she wanted to go home.”

Myung said Boughner allegedly had a history of being mistreated and isolated from her family by Dickerson. She believed he was taking care of her financially but Myung said they discovered he wasn’t.

While the two were in Spain, Dickerson allegedly made her sign a notarized document under duress, which gave Dickerson full custody of Rahda.

Boughner was told the document would be the only way Rahda could get citizenship and that his employer would help pay for his own citizenship, according to Myung.

Boughner came back to Federal Way in August to tell family and friends about her year, but Myung found it strange Rahda wasn’t with her.

Dickerson reportedly refused to let Rahda go with her mother.

During that time, Boughner found out he had allegedly been “communicating with a lot with other women” and he was in a financial bind.

“It was the father’s idea to travel,” the gofundme.com account states. “He agreed since Sandra was pregnant and had to quit her jobs in order to travel with him that he would pay her monthly bills, making her financially dependent on him.”

While in Federal Way, she discovered all of her monthly bills from the last five months before Rahda’s birth were sent to collections and her SUV was in repossession.

“Everything he had been telling her was a lie,” Myung said.

Boughner boarded a plane on Sept. 6 to Spain with the intent to bring Rahda home as their relationship clearly wasn’t going to work out, Myung said.

When she got to Spain, she realized he “pretty much disappeared.”

“He kept stringing her along,” Myung said. “She didn’t want to go to the officials at first, she wanted to work it out. He kept saying they’d meet Sept. 12, Sept. 26, whatever.”

Finally, in October, Boughner was able to see Rahda for five days before he “flipped again.”

“He left with Rahda in the middle of the night while she was asleep and wouldn’t respond to calls,” Myung said.

According to the gofundme.com account, on the fifth night, Dickerson “told Sandra he was taking baby Rahda upstairs for a bath” but never returned.

He allegedly sent her a text the next morning telling her to leave his cousin’s house, where he was staying.

Boughner contacted the Spanish police department and filed a police report but when police went to Dickerson’s cousin’s house, he showed them the custody documents.

Police told her to get an attorney.

Boughner flew home to Federal Way on Nov. 2 after her attorney told her there was no point in being in Spain.

Now, she’s in the process of working with an attorney from Flexx Law in Seattle to determine the jurisdiction where the custody suit can take place. Since they are both from Washington and have lived or have properties in South King County, Boughner is arguing that her case should be heard here.

“Hopefully there’s a light at the end of the tunnel,” at the end of the tunnel,” Myung said. “Sandra hasn’t seen [Rahda] since October.”

Myung said since the gofundme.com account was started, she believes Dickerson has had women create fake profiles on Facebook, specifically meant to post comments on the campaign page and harass her through the private messaging.

She’s fearful he is using other people to speak on his behalf and passively harass her in hopes that she’s provoked to take down the campaign. Gofundme.com officials have since blocked the Facebook accounts, she said.

But the money is still needed for her friend to reconnect with her baby.

“It’s just starting,” Myung said. “I work at a law firm so I know how expensive attorneys can be. She’s already paid $1,000 in Spain … It could be up to $100,000.”

Dickerson played for the Memphis Grizzlies as a guard before he retired in 2003 for injuries.

He returned a few months later, playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers but was released again for unknown reasons. During his five-year NBA career he also played for the Houston Rockets and graduated from the University of Arizona, where he was a member of the university’s 1997 NCAA championship team.

According to previous Mirror reports, Dickerson led Federal Way High School to back-to-back state tournament appearances in 1993 and ­1994, leading the Eagles to a third-place finish his senior year.

The Mirror attempted to find contact information for Dickerson but was unsuccessful.

To help Boughner in her mission to see her daughter, visit www.gofundme.com/babyrahda.