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TAPE: EF04/0261 IN_TIME: 11:11:30:12 DURATION: 00:01:39:07 SOURCES: ABC RESTRICTIONS: No Access Internet DATELINE: Philadelphia - 1 March 2004/File SHOTLIST: ?? 1-3 ARE MUTE 1 STILL of suspect Carolyn Correa File - 1997 2 Various of rescue workers at the fire where girl was thought to have died 3 Fire fighter carrying out what was then believed to be the body of a child (First Run 1800 Europe Evening March 2, 2004) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - March 2, 2004 4 SOUNDBITE: (English) Luz Cuevas, Mother I say, always I say my daughter is alive, my daughter is not dying in that fire Nobody believe me 5 Photograph of baby 6 SOUNDBITE: (English) Luz Cuevas, Mother I remember when she was baby, she make a dimple in her cheeks and I said to my sister if she smile and I see that dimple, she is my daughter And the girl walked in front of me and she smiled and she grew a dimple And I said to my sister, she is my daughter And my sister said you have to have control, you know it is just something - maybe she go and runaway and we need proof 7 Pictures of child Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - March 1, 2004 8 SOUNDBITE: (English) Captain John Darby It's going to be difficult for the child I mean, afterall, she grew up with a woman, knowing a woman as her mother, but was in fact her kidnapper So it's going to be a very difficulty psychological process and emotional process of reunification and that's going to have to be dealt with very delicately by professionals That would be outside our scope 9 Wide view of news conference with police officers SHOTLIST: A baby girl thought to have died in a 1997 fire is alive and was actually kidnapped by a woman who set the blaze to cover her tracks, police said The biological mother contacted authorities after seeing the now 6-year-old at a birthday party and recognizing the child from a dimple on her face Delimar Vera was thought to have perished in the 1997 blaze in her family's home, consumed by the heat and flames of a fast-moving fire blamed on an extension cord for a space heater No body was ever found In January, the child's mother spotted the girl at a birthday party and was certain she was her daughter, police Captain John Darby said The girl's mother described on Tuesday how she told her sister she had recognised her child At the party, she told the girl she had gum in her hair and pulled out five strands for DNA testing, Cuevas told The Associated Press on Tuesday She said she folded them in a napkin and placed them in a plastic bag, which she locked in a safe at home, and contacted authorities Delimar has been placed in state custody in New Jersey It was not clear when she would be reunited with her mother Delimar was thought to have perished in the December 15, 1997, blaze in her family's home A body was never found; authorities believed the infant had been consumed by the fast-moving fire Ever since the blaze, Cuevas held on to the belief that her child was somehow alive - partly because it didn't make sense that a window of the infant's second-floor room was found to have been open after the blaze, even though it was the middle of December