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Guatemalan boy who died in US custody suffered from brain infection
Source: The Guardian
Guatemalan boy who died in US custody suffered from brain infection
The 16-year-old, who died in a Texas children’s hospital, travelled to the US from Camotán, hoping to be reunited with his older brother
Nina Lakhani
Fri 3 May 2019 17.13 BST First published on Thu 2 May 2019 18.59 BST
A Guatemalan boy who died at a Texas children’s hospital after being detained on the US southern border was suffering from a brain infection, the Guardian has learned. He was the third migrant child from Guatemala to die in US government custody in the past five months.
Juan De León Gutiérrez, 16, had travelled to the US from Camotán, a poor rural community in the Chiquimula region of eastern Guatemala, hoping to be reunited with his older brother.
It is unclear when or where the boy first fell ill, but he died on Tuesday, days after being detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and transferred to a government-contracted children’s detention shelter.
“My son was always healthy,” his mother, Tránsito Gutiérrez Oloroso, told local newspaper Prensa Libre. “I ask that they treat his remains with dignity.”
Juan was diagnosed with a frontal lobe infection at Driscoll children’s hospital in Corpus Christi.
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The 16-year-old, who died in a Texas children’s hospital, travelled to the US from Camotán, hoping to be reunited with his older brother
Nina Lakhani
Fri 3 May 2019 17.13 BST First published on Thu 2 May 2019 18.59 BST
A Guatemalan boy who died at a Texas children’s hospital after being detained on the US southern border was suffering from a brain infection, the Guardian has learned. He was the third migrant child from Guatemala to die in US government custody in the past five months.
Juan De León Gutiérrez, 16, had travelled to the US from Camotán, a poor rural community in the Chiquimula region of eastern Guatemala, hoping to be reunited with his older brother.
It is unclear when or where the boy first fell ill, but he died on Tuesday, days after being detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and transferred to a government-contracted children’s detention shelter.
“My son was always healthy,” his mother, Tránsito Gutiérrez Oloroso, told local newspaper Prensa Libre. “I ask that they treat his remains with dignity.”
Juan was diagnosed with a frontal lobe infection at Driscoll children’s hospital in Corpus Christi.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/02/guatemalan-migrant-boy-us-detention-died-brain-infection
