DNA Test Reunites Texas Woman With Daughter

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Dorotea Garcia and her 13-year-old daughter Alondra Diaz arrived Saturday morning in Houston, ending an eight-year cross-border case that had mistakenly sent another girl to the U.S. against her will, the AP reports. Diaz, a native-born U.S. citizen, was taken to Mexico in 2007 by her father without her mother's consent. To complicate matters, a judge in Mexico erroneously ruled that another girl was Garica's daughter and sent the girl to the U.S.

DNA testing proved Alondra Diaz, 13, is the daughter of Dorotea Garcia, a Houston resident, Michoacán, Mexico, state prosecutor's office spokeswoman Magdalena Guzman told ABC News on Friday.

Garcia and Diaz arrived at 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 after she and her daughter arrived at her suburban Houston home.

Garcia had been looking for Alondra since the girl's father allegedly took her to Mexico in 2007, according to The Associated Press, which reported that her father recently delivered the teen to family members, who presented her to authorities.

Mexican Judge Cinthia Elodia Mercado returned the girl to Garcia Friday, according to the AP, saying, "The recovery of a minor by an applicant mother has happened. This is over."

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