Mistaken identity: girl pulled screaming from Mexican school and sent to Texas
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Source: The Guardian
Jo Tuckman in Mexico City
Wednesday 22 April 2015 18.27 BST
A 14-year-old Mexican girl, who was dragged screaming from her secondary school by federal agents last week and flown to Houston to be with a woman who claimed to be her mother, is being repatriated to Mexico on Wednesday.
The repatriation of Alondra Luna follows DNA tests showing that she is not the daughter of Dorotea García, who had obtained a judge’s order to get her forcibly brought to Houston.
“We are all very happy,” Luna’s mother Susana Núñez told Milenio TV, adding that she had received a phone call at dawn telling her that her daughter would be on the first flight home today.
“They stole my daughter,” Núñez said.
The moment when federal agents seized Alondra in the central city of Guanajuato last Thursday was captured in a shocking video in which the girl is seen screaming and struggling as she is forced into a waiting vehicle. Núñez said she had never heard of García’s claim on her daughter until then.
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Mexican girl mistakenly sent to US woman is back home
By PETER ORSI, Associated Press | April 23, 2015 | Updated: April 23, 2015 6:50pm
GUANAJUATO, Mexico (AP) — Alondra Luna Nunez was a young girl when she had a mishap with a remote-control car, leaving a scar between her eyebrows. Last week, that scar resulted in the teenager being misidentified as a missing girl from Texas, and then spirited north to live with a woman who claimed to be her mother.
After a weeklong saga in which Alondra was videotaped as she was dragged screaming from a Mexican courtroom, the 14-year-old is back at home with the family that a DNA test proved is hers.
Her parents place blame on the Mexican judge who refused to accept the pile of documents they presented as proof of Alondra's identity, from baptismal records and a copy of her birth certificate to family photographs.
"The other girl had a scar, but on the eyebrow, and I have one on my nose. I mean all this was stirred up over that," Alondra told The Associated Press at an emotional reunion with her family Wednesday. "The judge said, 'No, it's her,' and that was that."
More:
http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Joy-anger-for-family-of-Mexican-girl-wrongly-6218296.php