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Kidnapped ‘dead’ girl returns to her mother

A SIX-YEAR-OLD girl who was kidnapped as a baby and was thought to have died in a fire until she was spotted at a birthday party by her mother, has been returned to her.

Wed, 10 Mar, 2004

‘She called me mommy and she accepts me’

A GIRL, thought to have died as a baby in a house fire six years ago, was reunited with her parents last night after a bizarre series of co-incidences.

Sat, 06 Mar, 2004

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A girl who was snatched from her cot by a woman who then set fire to the family house to cover the kidnap is to be returned to her biological mother.

Fri, 05 Mar, 2004

Mother’s intuition brought baby back from ‘dead’

LUZ CUEVAS took one look at the dimpled, dark-haired little girl at a birthday party and instantly knew two things — she was looking at her own daughter, presumed killed in a 1997 fire, and she needed a way to prove it.

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