Texas Woman Brings Home Missing Daughter From Mexico After Eight Years

A Texas woman has at last found her daughter in Mexico, after searching for eight years, and has taken her back home to Houston today, according to abcnews.

DNA tests showed that Alondra Diaz, 13, is indeed the daughter of Dorotea Garcia, said the state prosecutor's office spokeswoman Magdalena Guzman.

Dorotea landed in Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston on Saturday morning from Guadalajara, Mexico.

"What I had been wishing for so many years. Finally I can touch her. She is with me and I am grateful to God," Garcia said in Spanish.

Alondra had been taken to Mexico in 2007, but she was recently handed over to family members, who presented her to authorities. However, the Mexican Judge, Cinthia Elodia Mercado, again handed her over to Garcia and said, "The recovery of a minor by an applicant mother has happened. This is over."

Garcia had said that she would drop legal complaints if she got her daughter back.

In April, a judge ordered another teenage girl, Alondra Luna Nunez, to live with Garcia before it was revealed that she was not Garcia's daughter. It was a strange case of mistaken identity, and it is not clear how Garcia got the wrong girl with the right name.

Alondra Luna Nunez was forcibly taken away, with the girl kicking and screaming as she was separated from her family. Now she has gone back to her family, which went to the Los Reyes courthouse to 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 slammed the judge and said the family is ready to file a complaint.

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