A mother in San Bernadino, CA used Facebook to locate her kidnapped children.

California prosecutors have charged a man with kidnapping his two children almost 15 years ago after the mother used Facebook to locate their whereabouts.

Faustino Fernandez Utrera, who was held in custody in Osceola County Thursday, was charged with two felony counts each of kidnapping and child abduction, according to the San Bernardino County Sun.

About three months ago, Segala attempted to use Facebook to find her children, and searched the popular social networking Web site for her children’s' names to see if either had a profile. It was then that she found her daughter's profile, the Sun reports.

"In my 22 years of being in Montclair this is the first one (finding a child through social networking) I've ever heard of," Montclair police Sgt Ken Pollich said. "It's promising to know that there's a tool that if it's used properly its working for this woman. It's just unfortunate that it took 15 years to find them."


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