Mother Takes Home Daughter Thought Killed (A Happy news story)

[Florida_Geek]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Kidnapping-Arson.html

March 8, 2004
Mother Takes Home Daughter Thought Killed
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 8:47 p.m. ET

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A 6-year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped as a newborn and was thought to have died in a fire was returned to her mother Monday.

Luzaida Cuevas quickly ushered the girl through a back door into her Northeast Philadelphia home as night fell. The girl, dressed in a blue hooded jacket and pink pants, giggled but did not speak.

Cuevas, 31, and the child she named Delimar Vera were officially reunited Monday afternoon at state family services offices in Burlington County, N.J., the mother's attorney, Alexander Murphy Jr., said in a statement. The family planned a ``small, private gathering of friends and family'' to celebrate, he said.

Police allege that a relative, Carolyn Correa, snatched the 10-day-old girl from her crib in December 1997, torched the house to cover her crime and raised the infant as her own
.. more at article.

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[PartyPooper]

1. I can't believe I'm the first to respond to this thread!

It's great and happy news (a commodity we're so short of these days!). Best wishes to mother and daughter!

:toast:

[stevedeshazer]

2. That is one amazing story

I hope the young girl grows up well adjusted. What a nightmare, despite the happy ending!