Petition urges visa for Hania's father to attend daughter's funeral

An online petition is urging government officials to allow the father of a slain North Carolina teenage girl to attend her funeral.

Posted 3:51 p.m. Dec 3, 2018 — Updated 4:08 p.m. Dec 3, 2018

LUMBERTON, N.C. — An online petition is urging government officials to allow the father of a slain North Carolina teenage girl to attend her funeral, according to the Fayetteville Observer.

A petition on Change.org urging immigration officials to let the father of Hania Aguilar attend her funeral next week has nearly 10,000 signatures as of Sunday afternoon. The petition says her father lives in Guatemala and would need an expedited visa to attend.

Profiler: Killer likely knew Hania Aguilar or her neighborhood

Police said they found Aguilar’s body Tuesday after several weeks of searching.

Aguilar was abducted on Nov. 5 by a man dressed in black and wearing a yellow bandana while she was standing outside her family's home in the Rosewood Mobile Home Park, at 3525 E. Elizabethtown Road.

A man forced the teenager into her family's SUV and drove off. The SUV was found several miles south of her mobile home park. The body was found a few miles farther away.

A $30,000 reward remains in place for information related to the kidnapping.

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