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With the case of Elian Gonzalez, much new attention has been given to the plight of unaccompanied minors who come to the US without documentation. By now most people know that the vast majority of these children are not accorded the treatment Elian has received, but few children go through what Giovani Abel Gomez says he endured. At age six, in 1997, Gomez attempted to cross the border at Douglas, Arizona with an adult friend of his family. After being apprehended, he should have been released into the custody of his mother who went to Douglas as soon as she heard her son was there. This, according to the attorney representing the boy, is not what happened. Apparently the boy was taken to the Southwest Key Program, a detention center that houses unaccompanied minors. While there, a lawsuit filed on behalf of the child alleges, he was molested. This detention center has been the subject of criticism before. In 1997 a report released by the Children’s Rights Project, run by Human Rights Watch, the center does not follow INS regulations on the treatment of minors.
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