Valery's grandma wants her

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She hopes to bring 4-year-old home to Bolivia

By ALISON GENDAR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER


Several people seek custody of Valery Saavedra.

The Bolivian grandmother of a little girl left alone on a Queens street after her mother was slain plans to come to New York in hopes of claiming the tyke.
Roxanna Rivadineira wants to reunite with 4-year-old Valery Saavedra as soon as she secures an American visa - then take the child back to Bolivia, relatives and officials said yesterday.

"As soon as she has the documents, she's going immediately for the little girl," her daughter Eddin Rivadineira said from Cochabamba, Bolivia. "She wants to bring her home."

But the 45-year-old grandmother, whose daughter was allegedly killed and hacked up by her jilted gynecologist boyfriend, is just one of several people seeking custody of Valery.

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