Rights Commission Launches Probe After Mexican Girl Wrongly Sent to US Xinhua News
go to original April 25, 2015

A 14-year-old Mexican girl who was taken by authorities and sent to live in Houston was returned home after DNA tests showed she is not the daughter of the woman who claimed her. (Associated Press/Kortel News)

Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) is launching an investigation into the case of a Mexican girl who was grabbed by Interpol officers and wrongly sent to the United States to be with a woman who thought she was her daughter.

On Wednesday, 14-year-old Alondra Luna Nunez was seized and dragged kicking and screaming out of her school in central Michoacan state by Interpol agents who thought she had been wrongfully taken to Mexico by her father.

Dorotea Garcia, a woman residing in the United States whose child had been taken by her estranged partner eight years ago, had mistakenly identified Nunez as her missing daughter.

Nunez was quickly returned after a video of the abduction made the rounds online, leading Mexico's Foreign Relations Ministry (SRE) to get involved. A DNA test was done, proving it was a case of mistaken identity, and Nunez was back with her parents the next day.

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