A migrant child died in U.S. custody Monday, marking the fourth such death this year, CBS News reported Tuesday.
The 15-year-old Guatemalan migrant girl crossed the southern border unaccompanied in May, according to CBS, which cited a notice to Congress. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) handed the migrant child to the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where she was transferred to an El Paso hospital intensive care unit for a “significant, pre-existing illness.”
The child was pronounced dead as “a result of multi-organ failure due to complications of her underlying disease,” according to CBS, which cited the notice to Congress. Her mother and brother were present when she passed away.