A young Nicaraguan boy was found walking alone on a rural Texas road after being abandoned.
The 10-year-old boy traveled with a group of migrants but was left behind, alone, crying, and wandering the road.
Video footage released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows the boy explaining to a Rio Grande border patrol agent that he woke up and discovered that the group had left him.
“I came looking because I didn’t know where to go, and they can also rob or kidnap me or something,” he told the officer. The officer then “transported the child to a Border Patrol facility where he was fed and medically screened,” a statement stated.
“As with all unaccompanied alien children the border patrol encounters, he will be safely transferred to the custody of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement,” the agency added.
On April 1, the young boy was found near La Grulla, close to the U.S..-Mexico border.
“Scenes like these are all too common, as smugglers continue to abandon children in desolate areas, with zero regard for their well-being,” a CBP spokesperson said, per CBS News.
