LebaneseDude 6,146 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Via HuffPo Steve Hernandez tenderly wiped tears from his mother’s face. They were standing in an austere room in the San Bernardino County district attorney’s office. Maria Mancia couldn’t stop crying as she wrapped her arms around her son. It was their first embrace in 21 years — a long-delayed reunion that Mancia had once feared impossible. The last time Mancia, 42, had seen Hernandez was in 1995 when he was just 18 months old. She’d returned to her Rancho Cucamonga, California home one day to find the place ransacked and her child missing. Hernandez’s father, who she lived with, had kidnapped the boy. “That became the only photograph she had of Steve for the last 21 years,” investigator Karen Cragg of the San Bernardino County district attorney’s child abduction unit, told The Associated Press. Then in February, Cragg and her colleague, Michelle Faxon, received a tip that Hernandez, now 22, and his dad were possibly living in Puebla, Mexico. The elder Hernandez had gone missing, said Cragg, and the investigators used that as an excuse to start a dialogue with his son. In May, DNA samples from both Hernandez and Mancia were sent to a Department of Justice lab for testing. Neither mom nor son had been informed of the test so as to avoid any disappointment, the investigators said. But weeks later, incredible news emerged: The samples were a match. Cragg and Faxon drove to Mancia’s house to break the good news. “It was like she didn’t believe us at first,” Cragg told AP. “She began to cry. She said she couldn’t believe he was still alive.” On Thursday, Mancia and her son were reunited in the DA’s office. “Now this anguish I’ve carried is gone now that I have my son back,” Mancia told KABC-TV. “I spent 21 years looking for him not knowing anything.” Edited just now by LebaneseDude. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FATCAT 60,888 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I wish there was a video of her learning they'd found him. It'd cry my eyes out. This kitten over here (meow) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versace 8,078 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Awww this is so sad and sweet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 109,667 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erotica 34,928 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Wow, 21 years. Good thing there's not a video of the reunion. I would've spent the rest of the day crying Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peroxide 9,202 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I want to send the mother flowers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weed 78,953 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 What a terrible dad... It's nice they're finally back together Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaney 5,515 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Poor mother. I get goosebumps just thinking about how she must have felt all her life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SissyFromSpace 20,884 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Aewww Barbie elitist - Weaboo - Sissy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion Heart 15,041 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 ;( ▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle 2,056 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I can't imagine how they must be feeling and have went through. 😢 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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