MISSING WOMAN’S DAUGHTER BACK WITH FAMILY
THE daughter of an Australian mother missing in Mexico has had an emotional reunion with family.
Mexican and Australian authorities are frantically searching to find Tahnee Shanks, 32, who had been living in Mexico with her partner Jorge Aguirre Estudillo.
The alarm was raised with Queensland Police last week after the
Whitsundays woman had not been heard from in several days.
Her former partner is also missing. The couple’s two-year-old daughter Adelynn was found wandering the streets near a church.
Ms Shanks’ brother, Ben, last week said that Adelynn had been dumped at the church by her father.
With the help of Mexican authorities, Adelynn has now been reunited with Ms Shanks’ brother and mother Leanne.
“The Shanks family would like to express our deepest thanks to every kind donation and please know that each one has been acknowledged and appreciated from the bottom of our hearts,” the family said on a Gofundme page. “As you may have seen in the media, Addy is now in the safe hands of her uncle Ben and Nanna Leanne in Mexico.
“Our immediate goal is to get them all home safely as soon as possible but with several hurdles and red tape occurring and this may take some time with the costs mounting daily.
“We remain deeply concerned for the safety and whereabouts of Adelynn’s mother Tahnee.”
Ms Shanks was believed to have been travelling to Tulum, about 130km from Cancun, on a short trip with the girl and her ex-partner with whom she had recently separated.