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The story began: A 3-month-old girl was kidnapped after her mother left her outside a portable bathroom at an Avondale swap meet Sunday morning, police said.
The mother . . . placed the baby, wearing a white outfit, in a carrier outside the bathroom because she was helping an older daughter inside and there wasn't enough room for all three, she told police.
Jacqueline, the daughter of Jorge Vasquez, now 25, and his wife, Olivia Casteñada, now 22, was born Jan. 14, 2001. She was nearly 4 months old when she was abducted May 6, 2001, at a swap meet near 123rd Avenue and Buckeye Road.
The kidnapping took place when Casteñada stepped into a portable toilet to assist Nayeli. When she stepped back outside, after just a moment, Jacqueline, who was in a baby carrier with a green and white striped cushion, was gone. Casteñada scrambled through the swap meet, frantic to find her baby. Police arrived, but the search was fruitless.
Witnesses said there was a woman at the swap meet who had been showing undue attention to children, police said.
Now, more than four years later, Avondale police remain stumped in solving the case. They hope that an age-progression composite of Jacqueline, prepared by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, will bring new leads. It shows what the missing girl may look like at 4 years old.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0819coldcase19.html
The mother . . . placed the baby, wearing a white outfit, in a carrier outside the bathroom because she was helping an older daughter inside and there wasn't enough room for all three, she told police.
Jacqueline, the daughter of Jorge Vasquez, now 25, and his wife, Olivia Casteñada, now 22, was born Jan. 14, 2001. She was nearly 4 months old when she was abducted May 6, 2001, at a swap meet near 123rd Avenue and Buckeye Road.
The kidnapping took place when Casteñada stepped into a portable toilet to assist Nayeli. When she stepped back outside, after just a moment, Jacqueline, who was in a baby carrier with a green and white striped cushion, was gone. Casteñada scrambled through the swap meet, frantic to find her baby. Police arrived, but the search was fruitless.
Witnesses said there was a woman at the swap meet who had been showing undue attention to children, police said.
Now, more than four years later, Avondale police remain stumped in solving the case. They hope that an age-progression composite of Jacqueline, prepared by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, will bring new leads. It shows what the missing girl may look like at 4 years old.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0819coldcase19.html
