A young girl from South Alabama has been rescued and returned home after being kidnapped in September from Orange Beach by her mother and taken to Mexico.

According to sources, Kionni Haugen, 3, was reportedly taken to the country by Haley Harris, 23, to be handed off as a debt payment owed to a cartel. The debt was reportedly not Harris' own, but her current boyfriend's, who is allegedly an illegal alien with a previous record of child molestation and ties to organized crime in Mexico.

Haugen's safe return on Sunday was partly made possible through the hard work of U.S. Rep. Barry Moore's (R-Enterprise) office and the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office.

"Three-year-old Kionni arrived back in the United States today and has been reunited with her family in Baldwin County, and I couldn't be

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