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Yosemito

(648 posts) Tue Dec 25, 2018, 09:57 PM Dec 2018

8 year old boy died seven days after entering USA

8 year old boy Felipe Alonzo Gomez died seven days after entering USA
Details are beginning to emerge on the death of an 8 year old boy on Christmas eve.
According to news reports, the boy died "shortly after midnight" on Christmas day.
He had arrived in December 18th, 2018.
CNN (12-25-2018):

The ministry said CBP alerted Guatemalan officials of the death on Tuesday. The boy arrived in El Paso with his father December 18 and was transferred to the Alamogordo CBP station on Sunday, according to the statement.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/25/us/guatemalan-boy-dies-in-us-custody/index.html

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