The shocking case of a fake pregnancy that led to a Mexican baby kidnapping

Hours later, she and her husband Arturo were arrested in a motel, and the baby, Katya Valentina, was brought back, unharmed, to her parents. Mendoza was jailed for 13 years for kidnapping, and her case attracted huge media attention in Mexico, as she had faked a full-term pregnancy that had fooled her husband, family, and doctors. The social and mental pressure she felt to be a mother is now explored in a new film, A Child of My Own, which comes to Netflix on Thursday.