I’m somewhat surprised this is only being released now. Specifically because it involves a child. I saw the article on social media and have been looking through newspaper articles. Nothing about this boy. The only thing remotely close to the details released here was a story of a woman arrested in Texas for abandoning her 4 year old son at a warehouse is Mexico. I remembered I40 runs from Oklahoma City directly to Amarillo, TX. Erick, Oklahoma is just a stone’s throw across the TX/OK state line on I40 inside OK. From Amarillo, Interstate 27/Highway 87 runs directly south and leads to several main thoroughfares connecting larger cities in Texas and almost a straight shot to the TX/Mexico border.
I’ll link the story of the woman I mentioned from the original article I found and just a few stories similar to that, of children being abandoned near the US/Mexican border.
One thing I wondered when I first saw the story of the boy found in Erick, was how they came up with the name “Angel Damein Guzman”, which is not the typical spelling of “Damian”. That may just be a spelling error, I don’t know. Point being, one article I found about a 3 year old found near the border, actually had his name and phone numbers written inside of his shoes. That would be one explanation of how authorities came up with that name for the boy in Erick. After reading and recalling several instances where children of Mexican/Guatemalan/Honduran/Costa Rican etc. decent are either sent with groups attempting to cross the border into the US or actually abandoned somewhere inside the US, it makes a lot of sense. One of the articles also references a 6 year old boy found in Arizona who had with him a handwritten note written in Spanish, “I am looking for my mother”.
I realize these stories are likely all mutually exclusive but considering he has gone almost 6 months without being identified, I think it’s possible his story is very similar to that of these other children. I probably wouldn’t have considered it right off had I not come across the story of the woman from Texas.
Just some of my initial thoughts!
Texas Woman Abandoned 4 yr old in Mexico:
Texas police arrest mom of boy, 4, found abandoned on U.S.-Mexico border
El Paso mother of boy found alone in Juarez faces additional charges
3 YO found with name/numbers written in shoes:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/24/border-patrol-finds-crying-year-old-left-cornfield-with-his-name-phone-number-written-his-shoes/?outputType=amp
6 YO found with handwritten note:
'Oh, God': Melania Trump reacts to photo of migrant boy left alone with note in desert
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ETA: The date which the boy was found in Mexico (22FEB2017) also caught my eye, although it’s completely unrelated. Just a little ironic.
