Hearing stories of children being abducted from their homes and lives is more than tragic. Sadly, a happy reunion between family and child doesn’t always happen. Finding the abductor and bringing them to justice doesn’t always occur either. But for one mother, after decades of waiting, she finally got the answers she was looking for.
Maria Mancia’s nightmare started one night in 1995. She returned to her home in Rancho Cucamonga, California, to find the place ransacked and her 18-month-old son gone. Worse still, all pictures and identifying information for her little boy were also gone.
It didn’t take long for Maria to figure out the abductor was the boy’s father, Valentin Hernandez, whom she was living with at the time. Read the full article here ▶
