After discovering that contracted medical staff ignored the mother’s pleas to take the girl to the hospital as her condition declined, the federal agency said it is taking action to ensure an in-custody death “never happens again.”
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The ongoing investigation found that medical personnel at Harlingen Station, where the girl and her family were in custody, failed to document multiple encounters with the child and were not aware of her previously documented medical history.Thursday that the in-custody death was “deeply upsetting” and an “unacceptable tragedy.”In an interview with the, the girl’s mother was identified as Mabel Alvarez Benedicks of Honduras.
While the girl was in custody at the border station, she complained of stomach aches, nausea, difficulty breathing, fever, flu-like symptoms and pain. Later that day, just before 2 p.m., Alvarez Benedicks returned to the health unit carrying her daughter, who appeared to be having a seizure. The mother and her daughter were transported in separate vehicles to Harligen’s Valley Baptist Medical Center 2 miles away. Less than an hour later, the child was dead.
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