Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story (2008) on Netflix
Luz Cuevas refuses to accept that her baby daughter Delimar died in a 1997 house fire. Six years later she meets a six-year-old girl named Aaliyah who looks like her.
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Plot summary
Delimar Vera is ten days old when a fire breaks out during a party at the family's home, and the police report that the baby died in the flames. Her mother, Luz Cuevas, is certain the child was taken and that someone set the fire to hide the kidnapping. She keeps searching, and her husband, Pedro Vera, grows distant from her. Six years on, Luz meets Valerie Valleja, the former wife of a cousin of Pedro's and a guest at that party, who has a six-year-old girl named Aaliyah. The girl looks like Luz, and Luz believes she may be Delimar. She sets out to prove that Aaliyah is her daughter.
Cast
- David Canales-Zorrillaas Israel - Age 6
- Daniel Vasquezas Wilfredo - Age 5
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story (2008)
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SPOILER
The film dramatises a real Philadelphia case: on December 15, 1997, Carolyn Correa deliberately set fire to Luz Cuevas's house to cover up her kidnapping of Cuevas's baby daughter Delimar, then raised the girl as her own daughter under the name Aaliyah.SPOILER
Six years later, on January 18, 2004, Luz Cuevas was struck by a 6-year-old girl's resemblance to herself at a birthday party; DNA tests, arranged with a state representative's help, confirmed Cuevas was the girl's mother.- Carolyn Correa was arrested in 2004 and held on $1 million bail; she pleaded nolo contendere and was found guilty of kidnapping, arson and attempted murder, sentenced in 2005 to nine to thirty years in prison, becoming eligible for parole in 2014.
