Miami girl who had vanished in December turns up in Mexico, police say

Police: Grandparents report Carolina and her mother are safe with them

MIAMI – The troubled 34-year-old mother who vanished in December turned up on Wednesday in Mexico with her four-year-old daughter, according to the Miami Police Department.

Officer Michael Vega, a spokesman for the department, said on Wednesday morning that detectives had feared four-year-old Carolina Rodriguez was in danger.

“We have got the FBI, we’ve got DCF, we’ve got other local agencies helping us out,” Vega said on Wednesday morning.

Carolina was safe with her mother Carolina Vizcarra and her maternal grandparents, according to Miami police.

The Florida Department of Children and Families had last seen them on Dec. 28 in the area of Northwest 15 Street and Second Avenue in Overtown, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s alert on Tuesday.

“We didn’t get this information until July when we put out a flyer, but we retracted it right away because the courts had not served the mother with the notice saying that she has to return the daughter to DCF,” Vega said.

In 2021, police officers arrested Vizcarra after a police officer who was off duty at the HCA Florida Mercy Hospital reported she had abandoned Carolina, then two years old, there. Vizcarra later admitted to leaving her daughter there because they were homeless and she didn’t want her daughter to sleep on the streets anymore.


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