Girl missing 12 years has been found
NEW YORK. KAZINFROM Greg Allen's obsession with finding his missing daughter began more than a decade ago, when the mother finally made good on a threat and fled with the daughter from Texas to Mexico, according to him and authorities.
Sabrina Allen was a month away from turning age 5, and the visit with her non-custodial mother, Dara Marie Llorens, was supposed to last only a weekend in April 2002, as part of a court agreement. But that weekend visitation in Austin lasted 12 years and finally ended Tuesday, when Mexican and U.S. authorities said they found the girl and her mother living in seclusion in a small apartment in a town between Mexico City and Puebla. The mother will face charges in Travis County, Texas, said Dan Powers, an FBI assistant special agent in charge in San Antonio, Texas. So much time has passed that Allen's daughter is all but grown, now 17 years old. Moreover, his daughter has been told over the years that her father was "a bad guy" and "a wife beater" -- all false accusations, Allen declared, CNN reports. But Allen never gave up hope. He began a website dedicated to his daughter: FindSabrina.org, which offered a $20,000 reward. He hired a private investigator. And he pressed his public campaign so relentlessly that people wondered whether he was going too far. "I was Ahab and the white whale. I was not going to survive," Allen said of his pursuit. "I've had people say, "Of course, she's with her mother; what's the big deal?' "People just don't understand," he said. "I was accused of overstepping my bounds." For full version go to