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San Francisco (dpa) - A mother has been reunited with her missing daughter, who was kidnapped as a baby 30 years ago by her estranged husband, according to The Arizona Republic Monday.
The emotional reunion came on Mother's Day Sunday, three decades after the 21-month-old girl Genevieve Rachel Nielsen had been snatched by her father, Eric Douglas Nielsen.
The girl was raised under a different name and grew up believing her mother Laura Gooder, 53, had died in a car accident.
Police have so far declined to detail how they tracked down the missing child, who now has a child of her own. The father has been in jail for the last seven years in an Arizona prison on unrelated charges and using a different identity, the report said.
Genevieve Nielsen was informed of her true identity last week by the detective who solved the case. She was reportedly distraught by the news.
"The meeting didn't go as well as I had hoped," said Detective Sergeant Dave Wurtz. "She said to me at one point, 'I don't know who I am.' She is very distressed over this whole thing."
Copyright 2006 dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH
