Boy kidnapped from California park found seven decades later by niece

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A man abducted from a California park as a six-year-old has been reunited with his family, seven decades later.Luis Armando Albino was abducted from a West Oakland park on February 21, 1951, when a woman lured him away from his older brother with a promise to buy him candy.The woman kidnapped the Puerto Rico-born boy and flew him to the east coast of the US, where he was raised by a couple as their child, according to the Bay Area News Group.His brother, Roger Albino, who was 10 at the time, told investigators in an interrogation a woman with a bandana around her head had taken his brother.Oakland Tribune articles at the time reported a joint, nine-block search operation was conducted by police, soldiers from a local army base and the coastguard but found no sign of Luis.For 73 years, Mr Albino remained missing.That was until his sister’s daughter, Alida Alequin, tracked him down with the help of police, the FBI and the state Department of Justice.She said the family continued…

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