A 4-month-old baby and an 18-month-old toddler were found abandoned by smugglers in an Arizona desert, a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent said.
were later indicted on charges that include conspiracy to transport and the transportation of illegal migrants resulting in death."This is cruelty.
And it is gut-wrenching," John Madlin, the Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector, said in aModlin said that agents found the infant unresponsive in the Sonoran Desert, but were "able to revive her and avert tragedy."
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