Guatemalan 16-year-old boy dies in US custody after crossing border
by Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times
May 01, 2019
3 minutes
HOUSTON - A 16-year-old boy died in U.S. custody after crossing the southern border without an adult, the latest of several young migrant deaths that occurred in federal custody in recent months, officials said Wednesday.
The Guatemalan youth died Tuesday after spending several days in intensive care at a children's hospital, Health and Human Services spokeswoman Evelyn Stauffer said in a statement. Stauffer declined to name the boy, the hospital or the city where he was treated.
His death comes
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