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Suspect In Rape, Burying Alive Of Child Is In U.S. Illegally
POSTED: 7:48 am EDT May 27, 2005
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Officials said the Florida teenager charged with raping an 8-year old girl and leaving her for dead is in the United States illegally.
Milagro Cunningham, 17, is a Bahamian native. Authorities said he escaped the notice of immigration authorities after three burglary arrests last year because his cases were handled in the juvenile justice system.
The U.S. Border Patrol chief in West Palm Beach said if Cunningham had been booked into the main jail, he would have been noticed. An immigration spokeswoman says Cunningham arrived in 2003 on a visitor's visa from the Bahamas and overstayed the short-term limit.
The girl spent about seven hours Sunday buried under debris in a trash bin after being kidnapped from her godmother's apartment.