Overview

• The mother and her partner were arrested on June 4 in Valencia and ordered into preventive detention for kidnapping and international child abduction.
• A Milan court had directed the girl’s transfer to social services in 2013–14, but her mother fled Italy with the then three-year-old.
• Investigators located the 13-year-old girl, who was unaware of her father’s existence, after a European arrest warrant triggered joint efforts by Milan’s child protection unit and Carabineros with Spanish police support.
• The mother’s 2019 conviction for willfully defying a judicial order and abducting a minor marked an earlier chapter in her legal saga.
• The girl’s grandmother and her husband remain under house arrest in Italy as authorities deepen their probe into the family network.