Gilberto Ramos and Cipriana Juarez Diaz

Cipriana Juarez Diaz: His mother begged him not to go. The better treatment would have been if he stayed, Cipriana Juarez Diaz said in a tearful interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday. When he wouldnt relent, she draped him with a white rosary for safe passage, according to The Star. ON COM: SAN LAS Gilberto Ramos wanted to leave his chilly mountain village for the United States to earn money to treat his mothers epilepsy. A month later, his decaying body was found in the Texas desert. Now, the boy has become a symbol for the perils faced by a record flood of unaccompanied children from Central America who are crossing illegally into the U.S. Luis Soto/AP Two images of the virgin Mary and a rosary hang on a wall at the Ramos Juarez home. The boy was found with the rosary still around his neck and a brother Chicago phone number scribbled on the inside of his belt buckle about two weeks ago. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.