| November 7, 2009 Baby girl returned to her mother in Mexico City
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(NECN/TELEVISA/APTV/UNIVISION) - A baby girl that was sold to a group of human traffickers has been returned to her mother in Mexico City, a year after doctors told the woman that her newborn had died.
Mexico City authorities handed the baby to Vanessa Edith Castillo on Thursday after tests proved she was the mother. "I have my daughter. I can touch her, and I can hold her in my arms" Castillo said at a news conference on Thursday.
The case led to the arrest Wednesday of three doctors, a nurse and a receptionist at the hospital.
The woman who bought Castillo's baby was also detained.
Information she gave led to the other arrests.
Castillo gave birth by cesarean section on October 25, 2008 in the hospital Central de Oriente in Mexico City.
She said she heard her baby cry, but she didn't see her daughter because the doctor instructed her to wait for the anesthetic to wear off.
Castillo said they then told her the infant had been taken to another hospital, and later that she had died and been cremated.
The attorney general's office said that Castillo eventually received an email, believed to have been from the son of the owner of the clinic, in which she was told her daughter was alive and had been sold.
Investigators said that the child was sold for $1,200 to a Mexican psychologist.
The hospital has been shut down, prosecutors are investigating whether any other newborns may have been stolen
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