The family of Dulce María Alavez, a Latin girl who disappeared a year and a half ago in New Jersey and whose whereabouts is still unknown, celebrates this Sunday another girl’s birthday without her.
Even so, her relatives do not lose hope of hugging her again, according to local media. “I miss her a lot, all I want is to see her again, hug her,” Norma Pérez, the little girl’s grandmother, told NBC Philadelphia, a local affiliate of our sister network NBC News.
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This Sunday is the Dulce Maria’s seventh birthday.
On the occasion, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children began developing an image to represent what the girl would look like now, according to local newspaper NJ.com.
Dulce María’s family said they planned to celebrate with a cake and candles.
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“I will not lose faith and I hope to hear something from my granddaughter saying that she is fine, that she will come with us,” said her grandmother.
The little girl disappeared in September 2019. The mother, Noema Alavez Pérez, 19, He took the girl to Bridgeton City Park in New Jersey on September 16 with his 3-year-old brother Manuel.
