Lawsuit claims ten-year-old drugged and assaulted in US custody

Guatemalan boy spent 11 months in detention after being seized by US immigration officials

Migrant child
A migrant child works in a colouring book while waiting with his family at the US-Mexico border bridge after being denied entry to the US 
(Image credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

A father who was separated from his son after attempting to cross the US border says the ten-year-old boy was drugged and sexually assaulted while in US custody.

The Guatemalan man, identified in the lawsuit as J.E.B, is suing two shelters for migrant children, claiming that staff “acted with fraud, malice and gross neglect” in the treatment of his son, identified as F.C.B.

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