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11/22/2024 12:32:25 am

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Mexican Teen Back With Family After Interpol Sends Her To U.S. By Mistake

A scar between the eyebrows was the main facial characteristic that Dorotea Garcia, a woman in the U.S., insisted as proof that 14-year-old Alondra Luna Nunez of Mexico was her long-lost daughter. The woman even secured a court order and Interpol grabbed Luna at her school in Guanajuato.

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First, they brought her to a courtroom in Michoacan where her parents showed proof that Alondra is their daughter by presenting her birth certificate. But the judge decided in favor of Garcia and sent the teen on a flight to Texas against her will.

A video of Luna screaming as cops pushed her inside a police car became viral.

Alondra sought a DNA test in Mexico, but Judge Cinthia Elodia rejected her request. Alondra's parents went by bus to Houston and requested the court for a DNA test.

The tests showed that Luna was not the woman's child, so she was returned back to her parents on Wednesday. The Luna family is studying if it would file a lawsuit against the police officers and judge who forcibly took the teen and sent her to Texas against her will.

The National Human Rights Commission, a Mexican government agency, is helping the Luna family with the case.

According to Bangkok Post, the mistaken identity was the result of the Texas woman's complaint in 2007 that the father of her daughter brought the infant to Mexico. She requested assistance from authorities to return her daughter.

In March, the Mexican police told U.S. officials that Garcia went to Guanajuato and positively identified Luna as her long-lost daughter. The positive identification led to the involvement of Interpol in forcibly taking the teen from Mexico and sending her to Texas.

Guanajuato Governor Miguel Martinez met Luna on her return flight to Mexico on Wednesday. Luna asked the media to postpone interviews until Thursday because she wants to spend the day first with her real family.

Gustavo Luna, her father, thanked the media for their help.

"I want to enjoy being with my daughter ... Right now, what I want is to speak with my daughter," Bangkok Post quotes the joyous father.

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