Bonnie Sweeten and her nine-year-old daughter Julia Rakoczy, of Philadelphia, were initially believed to be the victims of a carjacking on Tuesday, May 26, 2009. Sweeten, age 38, called 911 and said she was forced into the trunk of a Cadillac by two black males, and that Rakoczy was still in the carjacked GMC Yukon Denali. Police issued an Amber Alert for the girl.Philadelphia Inquirer: Suv of Missing Mother and Daughter Found (May 27, 2009)
On the following evening, however, mother and daughter were found at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida and taken into police custody.Salon.com: DA: Missing Pa. mom, girl found at Disney World (May 27, 2009) Authorities had been alerted hours earlier when the pair were identified on surveillance video boarding an Orlando-bound plane at Philadelphia International Airport.FOX News: Report: Missing Mother, Daughter in Custody (May 27, 2009) On May 29, in an Orlando hearing that lasted less than a minute, Sweeten was extradited back to Pennsylvania where she will stand trial.Philadelphia.com: Woman in Disney abduction hoax to return to Pa. (May 29, 2009)
Julia Rakoczy
- Age: 9 years old
- Height: 4' 1" tallPhiladelphia Inquirer: Suv of Missing Mother and Daughter Found (May 27, 2009)
- Weight: 59 poundsPhiladelphia Inquirer: Suv of Missing Mother and Daughter Found (May 27, 2009)
- Long brown hair, blue eyes, dime-sized birthmark on her foreheadPhiladelphia Inquirer: Suv of Missing Mother and Daughter Found (May 27, 2009)
