“Mommy, mom! I need my mom!”
The girl was yelling frantically in Spanish. The hospital staff and social workers around her were unable to understand her cries.
But, Alma Tucker understood only too well.
An investigative officer for the Mexican consulate’s child protection unit, Tucker was on the verge of retirement when she called to the San Diego hospital to help the rescued teenager.
As an interpreter, Tucker’s job was to help find family members for illegal immigrants in hospitals.
This girl, 14, had been brought into the United States illegally after traveling through rough terrain, without her family. She was forced to have sex with multiple members of the group she was traveling with….