Guatemalan girl likely died of sepsis shock after crossing border, hospital officials said
Guatemalan girl likely died of sepsis shock after crossing border, hospital officials said
Jakelin Caal Maquin, 7, had a 105.9-degree temperature and was revived twice by medical technicians before being life-flighted to a hospital.
Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin
Dec. 17, 2018 / 2:26 AM CST
By Amanda Covarrubias
Hospital officials who treated the 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in U.S. Border patrol custody said she appears to have died from sepsis shock, according to the most detailed timeline of her death released by the Department of Homeland Security.
Autopsy results that will provide the official cause of death were still pending early Monday.
The statement released by DHS elaborated on what happened to Jakelin Caal Maquin in the hours after she and her father were apprehended by federal authorities and she became ill.
She and her father, Nery Gilberto Caal Cuz, were picked up by U.S. authorities with a group of 163 migrants on Dec. 6 in a remote stretch of the New Mexico desert near the Antelope Wells Port of Entry. Hours later, after being put on a bus to a Border Patrol station, she began vomiting and died Dec. 8 at a hospital in El Paso, Texas.
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