Alondra Luna Nunez was forced from her school in the Mexican region of Guanajuato after a woman from Texas claimed the teen was her daughter, but the 14-year-old was soon returned to Mexico after DNA tests established that Dorotea was not the teenager's mother.
Dorotea Garcia from Houston asserted that her daughter had been taken illegally to Mexico by her father in recent years in a claim which prompted the intervention of U.S authorities.
Following Dorotea's recent assertions that she had travelled to Mexico and located her daughter, Mexican agents assigned Interpol to the case.
Amid much publicity, Alondra was transported from her school to a courtroom in Michoacan on April 16th.
Both Alondra's parents and Dorotea presented birth certificates and testified during the hearing before the judge eventually ruled in favour of Dorotea.
Footage of Alondra's distress following the authorities arrival at her school was subsequently broadcast and caused much public outcry.
As a result of the controversy, the Mexican Foreign Ministry intervened and requested a DNA test which had been previously denied to Alondra's devastated family.
Upon receiving the result of the test, Alondra was reunited with her family.
Dorotea's daughter, Alonda Garcia, remains a missing person and a warrant for her father, Reynaldo Diaz's, arrest has been issued.
