2-Year-Old Boy, Still Alive, Found Next To His Migrant Mother's Dead Body Near Yuma
The mother and girl died from heat-related illness somewhere in the Cocopah Indian Tribe lands.
Arizona Mirror, News Partner
Posted Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 6:17 pm MT
The mother and two children had migrated from Colombia. (Christopher Broan/Patch)
Arizona Mirror
A Colombian man living in Florida is trying to reunite with his toddler son after his wife and daughter died in the desert west of Yuma, an ordeal that the two-year-old boy survived as the family crossed into the United States from Mexico.
Hugo Morales Pinzon lost his wife and 10-year-old daughter last week. The mother and girl died from heat-related illness somewhere in the Cocopah Indian Tribe lands just east of the U.S.-Mexico border near Yuma, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Border Patrol agents found a two-year old boy, still alive, next to his mother's dead body. He needed medical attention, CBP said in a statement. Emergency personnel took him to a hospital. He is now in government custody in California, according to the Colombian Consulate in Los Angeles.
The boy is among the nearly 15,000 migrant children and teens who, as of Aug. 31, are in the custody of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement. ORR holds minors who arrived at the border alone or were separated from their relatives at the border.
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There is no data for the number of dead migrants found in Yuma County, but the medical examiner in neighboring Pima County recorded 220 remains of dead migrants in Pima, Cochise, and Santa Cruz counties last year. So far this year, there have been 162 skeletons and bodies of migrants recovered, said Greg Hess, chief medical examiner for Pima County.
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