A woman in the US is suing local authorities after they mistook her for a women of the same name, and arrested her.
Maria Vargas-Bautista was arrested on an eight-year-old fugitive warrant in connection with a child abuse charge, but unfortunately, authorities made a massive blunder by arresting the wrong Maria Vargas-Bautista.
The woman they wrongfully arrested, a mother-of-three, was left baffled when she was brought into custody, trying in vain to convince police that they had the wrong woman.
To make matters worse, at the time Vargas-Bautista’s two critically-ill sons were fighting off throat infections. She had brought her children to A&E, and fainted; shortly after waking, she was arrested.
While Vargas-Bautista was finally released four days later, police gave no explanation or apology for their serious blunder.
The mother is now suing the county authorities, who incidentally failed to ask her for identification, or read her her rights upon being arrested.
The real, fugitive Maria Vargas-Bautista, meanwhile, is still at large.
