Kidnapped as a child, he reunites with his family 70 years later

His mother will unfortunately never find her son again, but he finally knows his family. On February 21, 1951, Luis Armando Albino is playing with his brother in a park in Oakland, California, where they moved after leaving Puerto Rico. At that moment, a lady approaches him offering him candy… The naive 6-year-old child is lured into the trap that will change his life forever, as reported by HuffingtonPost. The lady is actually there to kidnap the child and take him to a new family on the other side of the country.

From then on, his mother went to the police station every day to ask for news of the investigation, in vain despite her deep conviction that her little Luis was alive.

A golden niece

It was his granddaughter who would find her uncle decades later. Alida Alequin began her hunt in 2020. That same year, she took a DNA test and found that she matched 22% to a man, local media reported. Unfortunately, she was unable to contact him.

In 2024, she relaunches her research and scours the Internet for this man. Bingo. She ends up alerting the police who manage to locate Luis. The DNA results are unequivocal, the kidnapped little boy has finally been found. 70 years later. The latter then finds, for the first time, his entire family and even his big brother a few months before his death. Today Luis does not want to testify about his kidnapping and his life, preferring to enjoy his reunion.