Woman Who Raised Kidnapped San Diego Girl Is Sentenced
A woman who posed as the mother of a kidnapped San Diego girl was given a suspended sentence of six years in prison Friday.
But Nilza Gierbolini Guzman, who pleaded guilty to a charge of falsifying documents, will have to report regularly to probation officials and undergo tests for drug and alcohol use. She also is restricted to her home after 9 p.m.
“I am content with the sentence,” Gierbolini said as she left the courthouse in the east coast town of Humacao. “I trusted in God that it wouldn’t be prison.”
Gierbolini altered a birth certificate to show that the girl, Crystal Leann Anzaldi, was her daughter. She then raised Crystal, who was kidnapped from her parents’ home in San Diego when she was 15 months old.
Gierbolini denies having had any role in the 1990 kidnapping, saying she agreed to take care of the child for a friend who told her the girl’s mother had died.
The girl’s real mother has said she doubts Gierbolini’s story.
Crystal is now in the custody of her father in Oregon. Her parents divorced after her disappearance.
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