Federal and local authorities have reunited a Georgia father with his young daughter two years after the girl’s mother and the mother’s boyfriend allegedly abducted her and fled to Mexico.
In a statement Tuesday, the U.S. Marshals Service announced that – with assistance from the Smyrna Police Department and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children – they have rescued an international missing child and “facilitated the arrest of her kidnappers.”
“The child has been returned to the U.S. and reunited with her custodial parent. The kidnappers are currently in custody, awaiting justice,” the statement said.
In April 2021 in Smyrna, Cobb County, Georgia, the then-4-year-old girl was abducted by her non-custodial biological mother, Andrea McCord, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
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On that day, McCord was participating in a supervised visit with the child. McCord took the child and, with the help of her boyfriend Custodio Guerra, allegedly fled.
The visit was held at the home the girl shared with her father, James Williams.
According to Williams, his estranged wife, McCord, was living elsewhere and visiting their daughter at his home in Smyrna.
Williams said he was outside working in his yard while the girl spent time with her mother in the house, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. At some point, he realized McCord and his daughter were gone. Williams said McCord later sent a phone text, telling him that his car was at a nearby grocery store and the keys were under the seat.
Williams reported the girl missing to Smyrna Police. Arrest warrants were subsequently issued for McCord and Guerra. After the abduction, the Smyrna Police contacted the U.S. Marshals Service and requested assistance in recovering the kidnapped child and arresting the perpetrators. The U.S. Marshals Service took the…
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