New Delhi, April 5 -- For five months, a young father waited to be reunited with his three-year-old daughter after she was placed in federal custody upon crossing the US-Mexico border with her mother, The Associated Press (AP) reported.

It was only after turning to the courts that he learned his daughter had allegedly been sexually abused in foster care, where she was placed after being separated from her mother.

"She was so long in there. if they would have moved faster, nothing like that would have happened," the father told AP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

According to court documents cited by the news outlet, the child was placed in foster care in Harlingen, Texas, where she said she was abused by an older child.

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