"Nun" arraigned on new charge

Updated: Monday, 15 Mar 2010, 10:07 AM EDT
Published : Monday, 15 Mar 2010, 8:59 AM EDT

TAVARES, Fla. (AP) - The attorney for a "nun" accused of taking a 2-year-old girl and fleeing the country has entered a not guilty plea in a Central Florida courtroom for a witness tampering charge.

Laura Caballero did not appear in court Monday. She's accused of attempting to "alter" the testimony of a woman who notarized a power-of-attorney that Caballero used to take the girl to Argentina.

She already pleaded not guilty to interfering with custody and false imprisonment.

Authorities say Caballero bullied a family in the U.S. illegally, taking their daughter to Argentina for six months.

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Caballero was known as Sister Mary at the St. Filumena Catholic Church in Eustis. The church is not a Roman Catholic church affiliated with the Orlando Diocese or the Vatican, nor are its clergy and nuns.

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