The police report that 22-year old Wilmari Madelin Rosso was responsible for kidnapping her own daughter, 2-year old Johanna Monegro Rosso. A woman had returned the child to the MacDonald's playground in San Francisco de Macoris before a ransom could be paid. The police says that the mother confessed that it was a plan to get RD$200,000 that her cousin needed in order to set up a business. As reported in El Caribe, her cousin Luis Federico Garcia Fernandez had had problems with the police, wanted to go straight and needed the money to start anew. The kidnappers had asked for RD$500,000 in ransom. The child's father lives in the US.

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