Santo Domingo.—The echo of an International Amber Alert rumbled in the halls of the National District Attention Office, where yesterday afternoon the judge Fatima Veloz dictated Three months in pretrial detention against Miguel Antonio Torres Hernándezaka Kevin León Wooden either Shaaba Kukaaccused of kidnapping and bringing the country to a child just four years, using false identities and documents.
The abduction and the flight
The victim, violently separated from her biological mother in Guadalajara (Jalisco, Mexico) when she was barely 11 months old, had been guarded by Torres Hernández – a sentimental part of the mother and alleged father, without an official record to protect him. Under the facade of a “family trip”, the man changed the identity girl and transferred her clandestinely to the Dominican Republic, where she presented her as her “official” daughter next to the coimputed Viviana Villarreal Camberowho appears as a legal mother in adulterated documents.
The final rescue
After months of intense research – coordinated by the DINNAF, the Prosecutor’s Office of the National District and Interpol Santo Domingo – on July 24, 2025 raid In a capital’s property culminated in the rescue of the child and two other children (1 and 11 years old) found in conditions of abandonment: without adequate feeding or supervision.
The coercion audience
At the audience, the attorney Shirley Aurich and the prosecutor José Ramón Martínez They detailed the court how Torres Hernández and Villarreal Cambero warmed a framework of violation of fundamental rights: Identity supplantation, illicit traffic of migrants and human trafficking. Copies of the false passports and statements of witnesses confirmed the captivity of the child were seized.
In addition to the Preventive prison For Torres Hernández, Villarreal Cambero will face a Economic guarantee of RD $ 800,000Impediment of periodic output and presentation.
Charges and next steps
The defendants will respond for violations of multiple articles of the Law 136-03 (Protection of children and adolescents), the Law 137-03 (Illicit traffic of migrants and human trafficking), Law 155-17 (Money laundering) and Criminal Code. The investigation bodies will continue to collect evidence to complete the file, while the girl has been restored to the care of her biological mother in Colombia, according to the official registry.
This case, loaded with criminal audacity and a late rescue, exposes a network of deceptions that crossed borders and covers the judicial process of almost cinematographic nuances: a girl torn from her home, a false paternity and, finally, the coordinated action that returned her to her true family.
