Teacher Under Investigation for ‘Mexican Culture’ Comment About Mother of Missing 5-Year-Old

Dulce Alavez, 5, in a file photograph on left and in a convenience store getting ice cream on Sept. 16, 2019, shortly before she was taken from a playground in Bridgeton, New Jersey. FBI

A New Jersey teacher has been removed from the classroom after telling her Facebook followers that the kidnapping of a 5-year-old girl in the area happened because of “Mexican culture.”

According to an Amber Alert issued by authorities, Dulce Alavez was taken by a man from the Bridgeton City Park on Sept. 16 as her mother sat in a car nearby.