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Eight Year Old Reportedly Committed Suicide After Deportation (Click here to read more)

By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee
March 21, 2014 at 10:23 am
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An eight year old reportedly committed suicide last week after border patrol authorities caught her with a migrant smuggler as they attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the Associated Press. Mexico's Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (National Human Rights Commission) released a press statement on Monday, saying that it would investigate her death and find her parents who live in the United States.
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Federal authorities turned the young girl over to Chihuahua state authorities who put her in a private shelter, "instead of one run by the state's child protective services," in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. State prosecutors said that the girl hanged herself inside the bathroom of the private shelther, "La Esperanza," but that "there was no foul play."
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