US teen deported to Colombia after giving false name

COLOMBIAN authorities said they were due to hand over a pregnant 15-year-old Texas girl to US officials last night to be reunited with her family, nine months after she was deported to South America in a bizarre mix-up.

Dallas runaway Jakadrien Turner was deported last May to the Andean country she had never seen, and whose language she did not speak, after she gave a false name and age when she was arrested for shoplifting in Houston.

Colombia’s Foreign Ministry said US officials had provided identity documents proving that Turner was a US citizen. It said in a statement she would be handed over to US consular officials to be “returned to her country of origin”.