He left home at age 14 in 1997, but he came back mysteriously and revealed a terrible story – 03/12/2019

For more than 20 years, Cynthia Haag he refused to leave his home in Baltimore, United States. She stayed there in case the miracle happened and her daughter came back, missing in 1997 without a trace.

When that day finally arrived, Cynthia did not recognize the woman in front of her.

Crystal Haag, his 14-year-old daughter, became Crystal Saunders. At present, she was also a mother, spoke fluent Spanish and had a completely different face.

It was a happy ending and a fresh start for a mysterious "journey" born of a painful family secret. April 26, 1997On the day of Crystal's disappearance, Cynthia worked as a cashier in a company when her daughter went to buy milk and cereals on the spot.

"When you come back, stay home, I arrive at night," said Cynthia, an unmarried mother, to her young daughter. But when she arrived at night, her little one was no longer

It was years and years of pain without understanding what had happened. What the mother knew now, more than two decades later, was that her daughter was hiding a painful secret. And that is why he had gone away never to return.

The story revealed by the Washington Post, how much Crystal began to be mistreated by a neighbor when he was only nine years old. The abuses were so common that in principle he thought it was even normal.

But when the girl went into adolescence, she convinced herself that her mother had to know. A sad and fatal night, Crystal could not stand it anymore. And while her mother was working in the store (they only lived two in the house) and she took a bus to New York.

This is where the young woman from 14 years old it's become Crystal Saunders, a young woman 23 years He was cleaning houses and building a new house in the Bronx.

Crystal quickly became pregnant with her first child. He obtained a false driver's license and a medical card under his new identity.

She would have more children. Crystal has also become a part of her Dominican community, getting close so much that she has called them "grandmother" and "cousin". She had a new family now.

The day Crystal was 31, she posted a picture of herself on Instagram with a cake. "Happy 40 for me!" While Crystal has created her new life, her mother, Cynthia, has already been arrested. Years and years without knowing what had happened to his daughter.

For the year 201013 years after the disappearance, the Baltimore police determined that all efforts to locate Crystal had been "exhausted". What Cynthia did not know was that Crystal was still "watching" her old family via Facebook.

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It's his eldest son, Bryan, 20, who finally convinced the woman to approach her mother. One day in March 2018, Cynthia received a phone call. It's his eldest daughter, Bianca, who told him in a surprising way that Crystal was alive and that he had talked to her on Facebook.

The same night, Bianca grabbed the car, boarded her mother and drove to New York (just over 300 kilometers) to recover Crystal. "You're still my pretty girl," the mother told him when she found her daughter after two decades.

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A year later, still today, mother and daughter learn to act together. "It's like meeting a completely new person," Cynthia told the Washington Post. "She leaves as a child and comes back as an adult, I just want to love her."

Crystal then informed her mother of the badual abuse which led him to escape, and revealed that he thought Cynthia had known All the time. The mother has denied, but Crystal is still not sure.

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