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Santo Domingo.- A court imposed three months of preventive detention against Miguel Antonio Torres Hernández, accused of kidnapping a girl in Mexico, daughter of a Colombian mother, and illegally transporting her to the Dominican Republic with a false identity.
Torres Hernández, also known as Kevin León Wooden and/or Shaban Kuka, was arrested in the country thanks to an international arrest warrant issued after an Amber Alert was activated. His apprehension was achieved with the support of the OIPC-Interpol and the National Central Bureau in Santo Domingo. The youngest, only 4 years old, was separated from her biological mother when she was just 11 months old, in Guadalajara, Mexico. The accused, who was the mother's partner, retained her without authorization, falsified documents, and moved her to the Dominican Republic, concealing her true identity and seriously affecting her fundamental rights. Viviana Villarreal Cambero is also involved in the process, identified as a co-author of the act. According to the accusation, she participated in the care of the minor in the country and appears in documents as her mother, using a false identity. Villarreal was imposed as a coercive measure an economic guarantee of RD$800,000, a ban on leaving the country and periodic presentation. The rescue of the minor took place on July 24, 2025, during a raid in Santo Domingo, where two other children, aged one and eleven, were also found in conditions of abandonment and neglect, without adequate food or supervision. The investigation confirmed that her legitimate mother, of Colombian nationality, retains legal custody.You may be interested in: British fugitive wanted for kidnapping a minor captured in the National District
The Public Ministry filed charges for violations of Law 136-03 on the rights of children, Law 137-03 on human trafficking, Law 155-17 against money laundering, and several articles of the Dominican Penal Code. Judge Fátima Veloz, from the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the National District, ordered the sending of Torres Hernández to the Najayo Hombres Correction and Rehabilitation Center (CCR-17), while investigations into the case continue.
