[Hiddigeigei]

"And what is the sex of the "friend"?"
The article tells us:
"The report said the two women fought Christopher and got the child back."

[SamuraiScot]

The article tells us: "The report said the two women fought Christopher and got the child back."

Normally, that, of course, would establish it.

But from the general PC usage in the prose, I didn't think I could be sure that both of the "women" fighting off the kidnapper were in fact women.