She went to authorities and said she was the subject of a missing persons report filed a 10 years earlier by her mother, soon after she had arrived in the U.S. from Mexico.
Tonya Couch, who was deported from Mexico last week, arrived on a flight from Los Angeles and was taken to Tarrant County Jail in handcuffs and leg irons.
Jesús Leonel Sánchez Meza and Iván Soto Barraza, both extradited from Mexico, were convicted after less than a day of deliberations following a week-long trial in Tucson.