Migrant Girl's Family Appeals Official Version Of Death

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

On December 8, seven-year-old Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin died in a Texas hospital. The girl and her father had traveled from Guatemala expecting to cross the United States border; they were detained by the border patrol and, hours later, the girl began to convulse and had to be transferred to a hospital in the United States where she lost her life.

According to the official report, the cause of death was due to lack of food and water, as reported by the agency The Associated Press. Now, Jakelin's family debunks that version and they pretend to know the truth. For this reason, a group of lawyers is willing to take the family's case before the inconsistencies presented.

"It is unacceptable for any government agency to have people in custody signing documents in a language that they clearly do not understand," the attorneys said in a statement.

For her part, the mother of the minor, Claudia Maquín, expressed her feelings about the loss of her child and assured that her husband, Nery Gilberto Caal Cuz, made this journey with the sole purpose of helping her family in the precarious situation. who live. He took the girl because she was very close to him.

"I feel pain and sadness for the death of my daughter," he told the AFP agency. "When he left he said he was going to look for a job there to support us."

The family does not know how the journey was, they do not know how the Jakelin died; however, she asks that lies about her death not be spread.

"Before [Jakelin] left, he told his mother and grandmother that when he grew up he would go to work and bring ratatouille [money] for them," said Domingo Caal, the girl's grandfather.