Guadalajara, Mexico
A 15-year-old American girl who had been missing for four years was reunited with her family last week after she turned up at the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara. The girl, Dana Pevia, told police she left her North Carolina home with an adult neighbor after he got her pregnant when she was 11 years old. The man dropped her off in his hometown in Mexico, she said, where his relatives kept her captive and abused her. Police tracked down Hector Majarro Frausto, 22, in North Carolina and charged him with kidnapping and statutory rape. Dana flew home with her two children—Sandra, 3, and Francisco, 3 months—for a tearful family reunion at the Raleigh airport. “I didn’t know if my child was alive or dead,” said Wanda Pevia, Dana’s mother.
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