Thomas McDevitt of the special victims unit said Cuevas told police that Correa was a distant friend of a cousin of the baby's father, from whom she has separated. Cuevas had met Correa the day before the fire, McDevitt said. Correa returned December 15, saying she had left her purse upstairs, he said. Boyle said that when police told Cuevas about the DNA test results Saturday night she was "overwhelmed with joy. Officers at the time found bone fragments they thought were the baby's remains, but tests later showed them to be nonhuman, McDevitt said.
When investigators returned to the scene, firemen had already dumped several hundred pounds of debris from the gutted bedroom in the back yard, McDevitt said. The officers sifted through the debris but found mostly dry wool particles, which they were told resemble human ashes, but only those burned at 1, degrees for an hour or longer, McDevitt said.
The fire, which was confined to the bedroom, lasted only about 15 minutes and was nowhere near 1, degrees, McDevitt said. McDevitt admitted this scenario is an explanation only "up to a point.
Mom finds kidnapped daughter six years later Philadelphia officials had ruled infant died in fire Police declared Delimar Vera dead after a fire destroyed much of her home. KYW's Walt Hunter on the case of a Pennsylvania child who was believed to have died in a fire but who was in fact kidnapped. Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Police have said that they are looking into the possibility that Correa may have had an accomplice, but they would not elaborate.
A relative - who is cousin to both Pedro Vera and Carolyn Correa - told the Courier-Post that Pedro thought the child was his daughter, but nothing was ever done to follow up on that suspicion. Monday, Delimar was the picture of happiness: smiling broadly, waving to photographers and nuzzling her mother, whom she hadn't seen since she was 10 days old. Unfamiliarity isn't the only hurdle to clear: Delimar doesn't speak Spanish, and her mother speaks very little English.
Experts say the energetic little girl probably faces a long and difficult adjustment as she comes to terms with her new life and new identity. David Fassler, a University of Vermont professor of psychiatry and a child psychiatrist. Cuevas and Pedro Vera, Delimar's biological father, recently signed a six-figure deal to sell their story for a movie. Investigators assumed the baby's body was consumed by the flames.
Delimar had been sleeping. But with nothing more than a gut instinct, she did not feel she could go to the police. Vera was not invited to join Monday night's celebration.
The next day she returned, claiming she had left her purse upstairs. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. However, Cuevas suspects that she was kidnapped, and that the fire was staged by an outsider.
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Delimar was her daughter, and she had died at just 10 days old. It was a scene she never forgot. On the evening of December 15, , a fire broke out on the second storey of their family home in Philadelphia. I will double check everything before I record again. Delimar's father, year-old Pedro Vera, has retained a lawyer in his efforts to have a role in her new life. The true story of a woman who believed her infant daughter had perished in a fire, only to find her 6 years later living with another family.
Cuevas said that, convinced the child was Delimar, she told the girl that she had gum in her hair and yanked a few strands. She tucked the hair in a napkin that she then placed in her home safe, Cuevas said. But Pedro Vera contends and relatives confirm that he, not Cuevas, attended this year's January birthday party, held at his sister Evelyn's house.
He said he was in the kitchen when Aaliyah came to his side. Correa introduced her as her daughter, and told the girl that Vera was her cousin. The girl kept looking at Vera. The next day he called Cuevas to tell her he suspected that the girl called Aaliyah was their Delimar. She looks like us. She looks like you. She has my coloring.
I don't know. I have this feeling. That's when Cuevas told him she still had the girl's hairs from the year before, he said. Cuevas then went to Rep. Cruz, who contacted an assistant district attorney, who in turn persuaded the police Special Victim's Unit to investigate.
Vera said he tried to contact authorities. They knew how to find Carolyn. Why would she want to hire an investigator? When she knew who she was and where she was? That's something I need to ask Pedro and her. Evelyn Vera said she has called Cuevas but has not heard back from her and hasn't had a chance to question her brother. She said she was "as shocked as everyone else" when she heard that Aaliyah was Delimar, and wonders how and why Correa did it. I think something must have happened to make her do this," she said.
Zucker, Correa's attorney, is baffled by all the conflicting information. At this point, I really don't know what it is," he said.
Zucker is unclear about which legal strategy he will use for Correa, although he's considering an insanity defense. He still has a lot of interviews and research to do, he said. He said he believes the baby she had in December was either stillborn or she had a miscarriage.
He's looking into whether that could have led her to suffer some sort of extreme postpartum mental illness and to eventually convince herself that Aaliyah was her child.
As to whether he believes that she had a role in taking Delimar, he said, "I can tell you as the years passed, she believed this was her daughter, and that's what we're looking into now.
In , Correa had a baby with her current husband, Bryan Busardo. The girl, who had a heart defect, died a few hours after birth, Zucker said. Correa also has had two miscarriages, according to Moore, who took a paternity test in to be able to visit Aaliyah more often.
The test proved he is not her father. Friends describe Correa as an energetic, lively, doting mother. She took her for all kinds of stuff. She was a very good mother. She really cared for this child.
But she has a blemished history.
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