The now-26-year-old woman went to authorities and said she was the subject of a missing persons report filed a 10 years earlier by her mother, soon after she had arrived in the U.S. from Mexico.
She said her former boyfriend started to show a preference for the girl and began buying her clothing and shoes soon after she arrived in California from Mexico.
A Swiss woman was raped and two Argentinean men were seriously injured in Chiapa de Corzo.
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the ruling in the case of a transgender Mexican woman who sought shelter in the U.S. on the grounds that she would likely be tortured if returned to Mexico.
A judge in Mexico City sentenced Abraham Emanuel Morales Paquini to 18 years in prison for the rape and robbery of a woman in February.