This is a Shame.

A Brazilian teenager 16 years is held in the United States since August 11, unable to return to the country. The young Anna Stéfane Radeck de Carvalho Ferreira traveled bound for Orlando, which find an aunt, but was stopped when connecting in Detroit. Despite the tourist visa, she was detained and taken to a shelter for minors in Chicago from August 11.

The Foreign Ministry and the Consulate of Brazil in Chicago and said that monitoring the situation of the young. A lawyer is handling the case.

The teenager's mother, Liliane businesswoman Carvalho Ferreira, says he was three days without knowing the whereabouts of Stéfane. She traveled to the United States to follow the case, but so far only managed to see his daughter again. Liliane says the teenager traveling with family to the United States every year, but this was the first time she went alone to the country.

The case Stéfane is similar to what happened with another Brazilian teenager in April this year. Anna Beatriz Theophilus Dutra, 17, was also held in Chicago, for 15 days after being accused of having gone to the country to study with a tourist visa. She returned to Brazil on May 3.