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A Child Of My Own: The True Story of Alejandra MarÃn Mendoza: A Fake Pregnancy, a Stolen Baby, and the Deception That Shocked Mexico
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In June 2009, a woman walked out of Mexico's largest public hospital carrying a newborn in a department store bag. Every television in the country played the footage. Almost nobody asked what the nine months before it had cost her.
The case closed in the public mind inside forty eight hours, on the word of a single prosecutor, and it stayed closed for thirteen years. Mexico got a shopping bag and a monster. It never got the rest of the story, and the woman at the centre of it served her sentence while the other half stayed buried.
Marguerite A. Hollis rebuilds the case from the documentary record, invents nothing, and separates what a court established from what one woman has always claimed.
- Follow the full sequence, from three pregnancy losses to a hotel room in Iztacalco, in the order it actually happened
- Understand how a nine month deception survived a husband, a family, a workplace and a hospital without one person noticing
- Weigh both accounts of the disputed arrangement, set side by side with the evidence for each stated plainly
- Meet the man who spent two years in prison for this and was acquitted, a finding almost no account has ever reported
- Hear what the judge who tried the case said years later about the system that convicted her
- Get an honest map of what the record cannot answer, marked as uncertainty instead of dressed up as insight
You will find no invented dialogue here, no reconstructed thoughts, and no claim without its source attached. Private individuals stay private, and the child at the centre of the case is named nowhere.
Scroll up and click Buy Now, and read the half of this story the headlines never printed.
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