16 years after daycare fire killed 49 kids, U.S. deports fugitive to Mexico

TUCSON, AZ — A woman wanted in connection with a 2009 daycare fire that killed 49 children in Hermosillo, Mexico, has been deported from Arizona to face criminal charges.

Sandra Lucia Tellez-Nieves, 51, was removed from the U.S. and returned to Mexico on October 2.

She is accused of negligent injury and homicide related to the fire at the ABC Daycare Center, where she was a co-owner at the time of the fire…

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