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.

Luzaida Cuevas quickly ushered the girl through a back door into her Northeast Philadelphia home. The girl, dressed in a blue hooded jacket and pink pants, giggled but did not speak.

Ms Cuevas, 31, and the child she named Delimar Vera were earlier officially reunited at state family services offices in Burlington County, New Jersey, the mother's lawyer, Alexander Murphy, said in a statement.