In 1996, a fire took place in the Philadelphia home of Luz Cuevas and Pedro Vera in which in was presumed that their 10-day-old daughter Delimar had perished, writes Christine Pelisek for People.
Cuevas, however, never believed her daughter died in the fire.
Six years later, she saw a young girl at a party that she believed to be Delimar, according to The Guardian.
Confident in her mother’s intuition, Cuevas slyly took a strand of the child’s hair, brought it to the police, and asked them to conduct a DNA test.
The DNA testing eventually confirmed that Delimar was indeed Cuevas’ daughter. She had been living with the woman she believed to be her mother, Carolyn Correa, and her family for the previous 6 years in Willingsboro, New Jersey, just 15 miles away from her home.
Soon thereafter, Delimar returned to Philadelphia and reunited with her mother.
Correa was then taken into custody and charged with kidnapping.
Accoding to the Associated Press, she was ultimately convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Now, Delimar is telling her story in The Hand that Robbed the Cradle, a three-episode Fremantle documentary.
The years and decades still led to an identity crisis and left her with many questions, many of which she will discuss in the documentary.
Read more about the details of the high-profile Philly case in People.
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