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ICE Provided Medical Care to Pregnant Woman Wanted for Homicide

  • On April 29, 38-year-old Guatemalan detainee Iris Monterroso-Lemus delivered a stillborn baby under armed guard at Louisiana’s Richwood Correctional Center after her pleas for help were ignored.
  • After her mid-March 2025 arrest in Tennessee, Monterroso-Lemus was transferred through Illinois, Tennessee, and Alabama before arriving in Louisiana, where care was repeatedly denied as her pregnancy worsened.
  • Ochsner LSU Health records, cited by the Nashville Banner, show no fetal movement amid severe abdominal pain, that ultrasound requests were ignored and that two federal guards oversaw her stillbirth.
  • Following the viral post, 2.9 million views, lawmakers like Rep. Jayapal condemned the neglect, and DHS called her claims 'absolutely FALSE.'
  • Advocates warn that ICE detention facilities like Richwood have a history of neglect, with a 2019 report documenting a similar stillbirth under federal guard.
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ICE provided medical care to pregnant woman wanted for homicide

(The Center Square) – Contrary to a local media report and claim by a Democratic congresswoman, medical care was provided to a Guatemalan woman detained by immigration authorities – and she was detained because she was wanted in connection to…

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IBTimes UK broke the news in United Kingdom on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
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