The backpacks of Adilene Lopez Moreno, 11, and her mother, Rita Moreno Ocampo, of San Martin, Oaxaca, Mexico, remain at the site where the girl succumbed to heat exhaustion about 3 p.m. on June 14, 2002, east of Nolia and west of Sells in the West Desert of the Tohono O'odham Reservation. Moreno Ocampo sat with her daughter's body near a dirt road before seeking help. Other illegal immigrants passed while she sat through temperatures exceeding 100 degrees. A Border Patrol agent reported taht a resident from nearby Nolia may have erected the cross in memory of the girl. (PHOTO: NORMA JEAN GARGASZ)
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