A teenage girl has appeared in a
Mexican court in a custody case filed
by a US woman, weeks after another
girl was wrongly sent to America.
Alondra Diaz was in the court in the
western Michoacan state to confirm her
identity and consider DNA tests.
This comes after a video emerged showing
another girl, Alondra Luna Nunez, being
taken against her will by police to the US.
DNA tests later revealed the mistake and
the girl was returned home.
Alondra Diaz appeared in the court in Los
Reyes on Tuesday.
Mexican officials are now expected to
conduct DNA test to confirm whether the
girl is indeed the daughter of Dorotea
Garcia - a Houston resident who filed the
case.
The case dates back to 2007, when Mexico
received Ms Garcia's request to help
return her daughter who was allegedly
taken by her father to Mexico.
Last month's video of Alondra Luna
Nunez resisting police after she was seized
in her school on court orders spread
widely on social media, prompting
protests.
She was reportedly mistakenly identified
by a scar on her nose.
"The other girl had a scar, but on the
eyebrow, and I have one on my nose,"
Alondra Luna Nunez told the Associated
Press.
"I mean, all this was stirred up over that."
Mexican court in a custody case filed
by a US woman, weeks after another
girl was wrongly sent to America.
Alondra Diaz was in the court in the
western Michoacan state to confirm her
identity and consider DNA tests.
This comes after a video emerged showing
another girl, Alondra Luna Nunez, being
taken against her will by police to the US.
DNA tests later revealed the mistake and
the girl was returned home.
Alondra Diaz appeared in the court in Los
Reyes on Tuesday.
Mexican officials are now expected to
conduct DNA test to confirm whether the
girl is indeed the daughter of Dorotea
Garcia - a Houston resident who filed the
case.
The case dates back to 2007, when Mexico
received Ms Garcia's request to help
return her daughter who was allegedly
taken by her father to Mexico.
Last month's video of Alondra Luna
Nunez resisting police after she was seized
in her school on court orders spread
widely on social media, prompting
protests.
She was reportedly mistakenly identified
by a scar on her nose.
"The other girl had a scar, but on the
eyebrow, and I have one on my nose,"
Alondra Luna Nunez told the Associated
Press.
"I mean, all this was stirred up over that."
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