A woman who tried to kill herself with drug overdose has been identified as a schoolgirl who disappeared in a kidnapping seven years ago, it has emerged.
Image shows the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, undated photo. A 22-year-old woman was kidnapped from Bolivia seven years ago and enslaved in a textile workshop in the city of Villa Madero, Buenos Aires Province. (Newsflash)
The girl was just 14 when she was snatched from her home in Bolivia to work as a slave in a textile factory in Argentina.
Her abductor raped her and made her pregnant, reported local media which has not named the girl.
Now aged 22, she took a drug overdose and her real identity emerged when she was taken to the Santojanni Hospital in Liniers.
Police arrested the kidnapper and said that on 18th June, 2015, the girl had been on her way to school in La Paz when she simply disappeared.
The Bolivian Human Trafficking Division discovered that she had become friends with an older man who had promised an adventure.
But he had kidnapped her and taken her to Villa Madero in Argentina where she was locked up in a textile workshop and forced to work.
Her family said that they never gave up hope of finding her but she had not been allowed to contact them.
No further details are available on the kidnapper who is currently in custody and the woman and her child are being given professional help with plans to reunite her with her family.
