close to the family throughout the weekend and they tell us that there is much more to come out not shocking to many people. jakadrein turner spent her first weekend in her own bed in her dallas home she hasn t seen in a year. a family friend tells us she enjoyed seeing her mother and grandmother again. we are planning to get some rest, planning on planning to get back to a normal life. many people anxiously ate awaiting for turner to start unlocking secrets how she turn herself into tika cortez and ended up in colombia, her family realize getting back to normal isn t easy. the family is pregnant and needs critical checkups and investigators spending hours
we have video of jakadrein turner arriving at the airport in dallas, texas. wow, look at that she spent most of the past year in colombia after being deported by the u.s. government. the problem is, she suspect colombian and she is 15, an american teen aim here ran away from home after shoplifting and being arrested for it in houston she gave a fake name and convinced the american and then colombian officials she was a woman named tika cortez, a 21-year-old illegal immigrant. ed lavandera joins me live from dallas, texas, so many questions, i don t know why where to begin on this one. i suppose the first one, she is back, she is safe but the story doesn t end here. where do we go from sneer do we get answers on how this happened? does something happen to her for lying and is she still a colombian citizen? they gave her a passport down there? you are right. just because she is back home after more running away from home a year ago there are simply many, many questions that remain as
helping her family search for the runaway. the mother and grandmother believe the young girl was lured and coerced into a dangerous underworld of sex and drugs. ames believes jakadrein was preyed upon and the troubled teen was not acting alone when she adopted the made-up name tika cortez and got herself deported following her arrest in houston following shoplifting. i think the child was groomed. i believe we will find out that there were quite a number of adults involved. i don t believe for one minute that this child concocted this plan. reporter: studying eight months of facebook postings associated with tika cortez there are pictures of jakadrein turner enjoying life in bogota and show relationships with various men. although it looks like she was a willing participant, i truly anticipate that the information that s going to come forth is going to indeed show that she was not necessarily willing. she may have cooperated, and
again. family s ecstatic. we are happy to have their daughter home. we are planning to get some rest, planning to do what we can to make sure that she is able to get back to living a normal life. reporter: with many people anxiously awaiting for jakadrein turner to start unlocking the secrets about how she turned herself into tika cortez and ended up in colombia, her family is quickly realizing that getting back to normal won t be easy. the 15-year-old is pregnant and needs critical medical checkups there and are investigators who will spend hours asking questions about why she ran away and how she got herself deported to colombia. you know, i don t necessarily know that she really ran away from something as much as she may have ran to something. reporter: dana amess the director of the united search and response rescue team, a nonprofit group that counsels families searching for missing loved ones, ames. spent the last seven months
my son had a lot of friends back then. they all hang out together, hang out with jerry sandusky and i think you should talk to these other boys, too, not week in they would say. she pointed them in these boys direction. amir hekmati an ex-marine, born in arizona, raised in michigan. his family says the 28-year-old was arrested in august while visiting his grandmother and other relatives in iran. they say his reported confession, quote unquote, had to have been coerced. also in the news, emotional moments last night at a memorial service marking the one-year anniversary of the tucson shooting mass sack they re left six people dead. congresswoman gaby giffords, one of 13 people wounded, recited the pledge of allegiance. one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. such a goose bumps moment. she, by the way is still recovering from her injuries from that incident. and the pharmaceutical company novartis is recalling several of its products bec