Darlyn Cristabel Cordova-Valle
Darlyn Cristabel Cordova-Valle was 10 years old and from El Salvador, travelling to Nebraska to reach her mother in Omaha when Border Patrol found she had a serious heart condition. She was placed in the care of the Department of Health and Human Services, and after surgery in San Antonio she was left in a coma. She was moved to nursing facilities in Phoenix and then Omaha, closer to her family, and died at Children's Hospital of Omaha on September 29, 2018, with fever and respiratory distress given as the cause by Health and Human Services spokesman Mark Weber. Her mother lives in Omaha, and the Salvadoran Civic Association of Nebraska helped the family with legal and postmortem arrangements, and her body was sent back to El Salvador for burial.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Health and Human Services spokesman Mark Weber said she died of fever and respiratory distress.
Reported by: Health and Human Services spokesman Mark Weber (the agency that held her). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held her.