We Blame The Judge

[indago]

Journalist Peter Orsi wrote for The Associated Press 23 April 2015:
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When a woman in Texas claimed that Alondra Luna Nunez was her long-lost daughter, the girl's real parents in Mexico say they presented more than a dozen documents from baptismal records and a copy of her birth certificate to family photographs. They were sure it was enough to demonstrate her true origins. In the end, they say, Alondra was sent screaming to the U.S. ... And they blame their traumatic weeklong separation squarely on the judge who made the final call.

"The judge said, `No, it's her,' and that was that."
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[Noir]

Remarkable =/

One thing that appears to be missing from both articles...what proof was presented to the Judge that the child was indeed kidnapped? It mentions (as is in the OP) the docs the Mexican parents submitted, but nothing of what the Texan woman sent. Was their any evidence from the Texan woman at all?!

[Jeff]

Remarkable =/

One thing that appears to be missing from both articles...what proof was presented to the Judge that the child was indeed kidnapped? It mentions (as is in the OP) the docs the Mexican parents submitted, but nothing of what the Texan woman sent. Was their any evidence from the Texan woman at all?!

I think maybe the only evidence needed was a big fat envelope filled with American money.

[jimnyc]

Wow, that's insane. And Noir is correct, I would LOVE to see what evidence, if any, she had before sending this kid away. This should be investigated instantly and she should be jailed if she did this for malicious reasons.

[indago]

Journalist E. Eduardo Castillo wrote for The Associated Press 12 May 2015:
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Authorities may have located a girl taken by her father from Houston to Mexico eight years ago in a cross-border custody case that exploded into international headlines recently with a case of mistaken identity, an official said Monday. The girl presented herself at a court building accompanied by three relatives and identified herself as Alondra Diaz, a court official in the southwestern state of Michoacan told The Associated Press.
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[indago]

Journalists Maria Verza and Peter Orsi wrote for The Associated Press 16 May 2015:
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A Texas woman got her long-missing daughter back and headed for home, concluding an eight-year search at a Mexican court hearing a cross-border custody case that earlier mistakenly sent another girl to the U.S. against her will. ...The case gained international attention last month after Mercado erroneously ruled that 14-year-old Alondra Luna was the missing girl and ordered her turned over to Garcia. Video recordings circulated widely of Alondra Luna screaming and desperately resisting as police dragged her away. DNA testing performed after the girl was taken to the United States showed she was not Garcia's daughter, and she returned to her real family in Guanajuato.

The difference in treatment prompted Alondra Luna and her parents to travel to Los Reyes to stake out the courthouse Friday and demand an apology. "We have been here since 9 a.m. and the judge does not want to see us, nor will she open the door, and she says that if we remain here she will call police to remove us," said Susana Nunez, the girl's mother. "We want to make it clear that my girl's rights were trampled." Nunez said the family intended to file formal complaints next week but wanted to meet face-to-face with Mercado first to express their displeasure.

"I see this as a kidnapping that was ordered by the judge," the girl's father, Gustavo Luna, said.
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