Border Patrol medical staff declined to review the file of an 8-year-old girl with a chronic heart condition and rare blood disorder before she appeared to have a seizure and died on her ninth day in custody, an internal investigation found.
HARLINGEN, Texas — Border Patrol medical staff declined to review the file of an 8-year-old girl with a chronic heart condition and rare blood disorder before she appeared to have a seizure and died on her ninth day in custody, an internal investigation found
But a nurse practitioner declined to review documents about the girl the day she died, CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility said in Thursday on the May 17 death. The nurse practitioner reported denying three or four requests from the girl’s mother for an ambulance. Still, the report relied on interviews with Border Patrol agents and contracted medical personnel to raise a host of new and troubling questions about what went wrong during the girl's nine days in custody, which far exceeded the agency's own limit of 72 hours.
Troy Miller, CBP's acting commissioner, said the initial investigation “provides important new information on this tragic death" and he reaffirmed recent measures including a review of all “medically fragile” cases in custody to ensure they are out of custody as soon as possible. Average time in custody has dropped by more than half for families in two weeks, he said.
A court-appointed monitor expressed concern in January about chronic conditions of medically fragile children not getting through to Border Patrol staff.
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