Thread: NC: IA mother wanted on 2 counts child abduction

DUPLIN COUNTY (North Carolina)

Kenansville Police are looking for a woman who is suspected of abducting her own children, WNCT reports.

Police say Gloria Garcia Cruz is an illegal alien, and her two sons were recently placed with a foster family by the Department of Social Services.

WNCT reports that Cruz picked up her sons -- 10-year-old Edwin Garcia and his younger brother Luis -- from Kenansville Elementary on Friday with authorization. She has been charged with two counts of abducting a child.

Authorities believe Cruz may have taken her children to the Triangle area.

Cruz is described as 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 100 pounds. Anyone with information on Cruz's whereabouts is encouraged to contact the Duplin County Sheriff's Office at 910-296-2150.
Related Links

1. [ WNCT ] Kenansville Police searching for mother on the run
http://www2.wnct.com/nct/news/crime/art ... run/59300/

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By myrak on 10/06 05:43 AM

North Carolina does not remove children from the care of convicted child sex offenders. They get to keep their children. So why take them from a mother who is undocumented. Time to change the invitation on the Statute of Liberty ??
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By AS on 10/05 11:10 PM

These stories shouldn't be posted without all of the facts. Were the kids taken away for legitimate reasons or because she is an illegal alien? There are thousands of illegals in this area with tens of thousands of kids registered to our public schools. NC Board of Education actually has a policy to prevent a school from checking a box on the NC WISE data system stating citizenship, meaning that all illegals are automaticaly registered in the public schools as US Citizens. So this mother, unless we are missing something, is no different than so many others. Take all the kids away or leave them alone, but what is fair for one is fair for all. http://www.ncwise.org/ncwiseAnswFAQs.html Scroll down to "Demographic Loop" to view policy I refer to.
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By GS on 10/05 06:10 PM

She doesn't seem to have committed any crime prior to her children given away for foster care. If her children taken away from her just because she is here in this country illegally, then it is senseless and inhumane for the State to separate her from her kids. Hopefully, someone is not out on a personal vendetta against this woman.
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By Kara on 10/05 05:03 PM

they are her kids...

http://durhamcounty.mync.com/site/durha ... -abduction

Search Still On For Mom Who Abducted Own Children...
Law enforcement officers are still on the lookout for a mother who kidnapped her own children Friday afternoon.





By Philip Jones | Reporter
Published: October 5, 2009
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Law enforcement officers are still on the lookout for a mother who kidnapped her own children Friday afternoon.

Kenansville police say Gloria Garcia Cruz no longer has legal custody of her two sons, but checked them out of school and then took off with them.

Nine On Your Side wants to know how Cruz managed to get the boys out of school in the first place—so Philip Jones went to find out:

Investigators say surveillance video shows Gloria Garcia Cruz signing out her two sons—nine-year-old Luis Garcia and 10-year-old Edwin Garcia—from Kenansville Elementary School on Friday afternoon.

[b]Officers say she doesn’t have legal custody of the boys because the Department of Social Services took them away and put them in foster care within the last few weeks “because she was homeless at the time, didn’t have anywhere to go and she’s schizophrenic,â€