The FBI had offered a reward of $10,000 for information leading to the recovery of Aranza Maria Ochoa Lopez, who was last seen during a supervised visit with her mother.
In Mexico, the FBI found a lost American girl from October 2018.
At the age of four, Aranza Maria Ochoa Lopez, who had been in foster care, was abducted by her biological mother from a retail center in Vancouver, Washington.
She was last seen during a supervised visit with her mother. Who was detained in September 2019 in Pueblo, Mexico, a year later.
The infant, who is now eight years old, remained missing until February, when she was discovered in Michoacan, Mexico.
The FBI offered a reward of $10,000 for information leading to her recovery.
FBI special agents returned her to the United States, the bureau’s Seattle office announced on Wednesday.
“The FBI and our partners did not give up on Aranza for more than four years,” said Richard A. Collodi, special agent in command of the FBI’s Seattle field office.
Now, our focus will be on assisting Aranza with her reintegration into American society.
According to The Columbian, her mother, Esmeralda Lopez-Lopez, pleaded guilty in January 2021 to second-degree kidnapping and larceny and first-degree custodial interference in Clark County Superior Court. She was given a 20-month penitentiary sentence.
According to the newspaper, Aranza was placed in the custody of the state and foster care in 2017 following allegations of physical abuse by her mother. Lopez-Lopez was granted supervised visits twice per week.
