The case gained international attention last month after Judge Cinthia Elodia Mercado ruled that another teenager, 14-year-old Alondra Luna, was the missing girl and ordered her turned over to Garcia.Video recordings circulated widely of Alondra Luna screaming and desperately resisting as police dragged her away. DNA testing performed after the girl was taken to the United States showed she was not Garcias daughter, and she returned to her real family in Guanajuato.
Date: May 15, 2015
Category: World
Source: Google
US-Mexico custody saga ends as girl, mom head to Texas
Mercado had not asked for a DNA test last month when she ordered another girl, Alondra Luna, 14, to be sent to Houston after Garcia thought she was her daughter because they had a similar facial scar.
Date: May 15, 2015
Category: World
Source: Google
Mexican girl sent to Houston woman is returned after DNA tests
Alondra Luna Nunez can be seen screaming and fighting with every ounce of her energy as she is dragged out of her school in front of her mother in Guanajuato in central Mexico last week. She pleaded with the officers, who were working for Interpol, not to take her from her parents.
Date: Apr 23, 2015
Category: World
Source: Google
Joy, anger for family of Mexican girl wrongly sent to US
Garcia, speaking to a Houston television station, said the first time she saw Alondra Luna, I saw my daughter. She gave few details about how she ended up leaving Mexico with the girl, although she said she knows many wont look kindly on her actions.
Date: Apr 23, 2015
Category: World
Source: Google
Authorities seize wrong Mexican girl for forced return to US
The case of Alondra Luna Nunez drew international attention after a video of the distraught girl being forced into a police vehicle last week circulated in media and on social networks. There was no immediate explanation of why authorities did not confirm her identity before sending her out of the c