{"id":123196,"date":"2015-06-09T06:01:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T06:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=123196"},"modified":"2015-06-08T21:11:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T21:11:20","slug":"suitcase-boy-smuggled-into-spain-reunited-with-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/06\/suitcase-boy-smuggled-into-spain-reunited-with-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Suitcase boy’ smuggled into Spain reunited with mother"},"content":{"rendered":"
An eight-year-old Ivorian boy discovered being smuggled into Spain from Morocco in a suitcase has been reunited with his mother.<\/p>\n
Adou Ouattara was said to be in a “terrible state” when he was found last month in a bag without air vents at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.<\/p>\n
The boy’s father was arrested for arranging his son to be smuggled, but is due to be released on bail.<\/p>\n
The Moroccan woman who carried him in has also been detained.<\/p>\n
The boy underwent DNA tests before the Spanish authorities would hand him over to his mother, who lives legally on Spain’s Canary Islands.<\/p>\n
“His mother cried. It’s a very beautiful day,” Maria Antonia Palomo, the Ceuta official in charge of juvenile affairs, told AFP.<\/p>\n