Mexican teenager forcibly returned to Houston Woman

25/4/2015

Alondra Luna Nunez a 14-year-old Mexican was removed by force from her school, after a court hearing, then taken against her will to the US to live with Dorotea Garcia in Houston Texas who thought that Nunez was her daughter.

Garcia apparently saw Alondra in Guanajuato Mexico. She told a Houston TV station that when she first saw Alondra she knew that it was her daughter. In 2007 Garcia's daughter was allegedly abducted by her father and taken to Mexico. The identification of Alondra as her daughter resulted in a petition for her return by US authorities. The case was then forwarded to Judge Cinthia Mercado.

In spite of the fact the Alondra's parents presented Judge Mercado with a number of documents identifying Alondra as their daughter, including baptismal records, a birth certificate and family photographs.

Mercado nevertheless decided in favor of Garcia and claimed: "Our only job is to resolve whether the child is to be returned or not".

A video showing her being removed from her school kicking and screaming by Mexican federal police went viral prompting demands for an investigation. The government has announced recently that there will be an investigation. Some reports also say she was taken to another court and was dragged screaming from there as well and turned over to Interpol agents who took her to Houston.When she arrived in Houston, Alondra asked for a DNA test to show that she was not Garcia's daughter. The test was carried out at the Mexican consulate in Houston and showed that she was not Garcia's daughter.

Alondra left for Mexico and a reunion with her parents in Guanajuato on Wednesday.

Garcia and her relatives both apologized for the incident to Alondra before she left Houston and also phoned when she arrived home to ask her forgiveness. The parents and Alondra blame the judge for the incident.

While Alondra was terrified at first at being separated from her parents, when she arrived in Houston, she recorded a video and even posted to social media telling her parents in Mexico not to worry: "I'm fine, I see that the United States is nice. I don't understand anything they are saying because everything is in English".

The parents and Alondra blame the judge for rejecting the evidence they had presented including the fact that Garcia's daughter had a scar on her eyebrow rather than on her nose as Alondra has.

Sources:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/04/mexican-girl-forcibly-returns-home-150424073707367.html
https://youtu.be/yb9P7bBT1IY

4 Comments

Dava Castillo

25/4/2015 11:34:14 am

Thanks for the story Ken.

This case can be easily solved with DNA tests. Why hasn't that been done? In fact, DNA test should have been done in Mexico before putting the girl through the trauma of removing her. And even if the girl really is the lost child of an American citizen, removing her the way they did was unnecessary and caused the child to be traumatized, rather re-introducing her to the "facts" if true of her birth parentage.

ken

26/4/2015 05:09:27 pm

The case was solved by a DNA test that was taken in Houston. It should have been done in Mexico and then she never would have been taken back to Texas.

eileen

25/4/2015 03:39:46 pm

Bureaucracy gone mad once again. There should be some accountability

Hannah

26/4/2015 03:36:07 pm

This is beyond and belief. That poor girl. I will never forget that little five-year old boy whose mother got away from Cuba and she drown. First to have that experience and then because Cuba wanted him back and the violent father Ex-Pres Clinton agreed and in the middle of the night black clothed,heavily protected police with face mask smashed their way in an took that boy.He was screaming hysterically with shock. I'd never forgiven. Clinton for that. The authorities do go over the top sometimes. Thank you, Ken, for the report.

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