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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Blanco

An eight-year search for Rudy Farias came to a miracle conclusion. But he was never actually missing

Texas Center for the Missing

On 29 June, Janie Santana was delivered news that any parent of a missing child yearns for. After what she says were eight long years of praying her son Rudy Farias was alive, Ms Santana got a much-anticipated call from the Houston Police Department informing her that he had been found.

Ms Santana claimed Rudy, now 25, was badly beaten and abused, but expressed relief at the prospect of finally holding her son in her arms after years of uncertainty.

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