Mexican authorities taking Alondra Luna from her school.
A heartbreaker of a story in Mexico where Alondra Luna, a 14-year-old girl, was taken from her classroom by Mexican police and immediately sent to the U.S. to a woman who claimed to be her mother.
Turns out they were of no relation:
The Foreign Ministry said the police were carrying out an order from a judge to send the girl to Dorotea Garcia, who claimed the girl had been illegally taken to Mexico by her father years ago. Alondra's family insisted that authorities had taken the wrong girl and said their efforts to prove her identity were ignored.
DNA tests later revealed the truth and Alondra Luna is making her way back to Mexico today.
The Foreign Ministry said it first received a request in 2007 to return the girl, who had been taken by her father from the U.S. and, according to the information, was in the western state of Michoacan. This year, Garcia came to Mexico and said she had identified her daughter in Guanajuato, a state neighboring Michoacan, prompting U.S. authorities to seek the help of Interpol to bring her to the United States.
If Dorotea Garcia's daughter is indeed still missing, this is a sad situation for all involved.
Onlookers outside of Alondra's school captured the horrifying moments when she was taken from the school. A word of caution, this is heartbreaking video: