Illegal entrant faces 2.5 years for abandoning baby in desert
Man is convicted of negligent child abuse in Cochise
The Associated Press
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 08.29.2006
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SIERRA VISTA — An illegal entrant who abandoned a 16-month-old girl under a mesquite bush as

Border Patrol agents closed in was convicted of child abuse, but a jury rejected a more serious

charge that could have led to a 24-year prison sentence.
Juan Cayetano Rosas, 24, faces 2 1/2 years in prison for Friday's conviction on a negligent child

abuse charge.
Cayetano, from Huachinango in the Mexican state of Puebla, was among a group who crossed the

border on July 5, 2005.
He testified at his trial in Bisbee that he had just squeezed through a fence into the United

States when the migrant smuggler leading his group told a woman to hand Cayetano her baby.
When Border Patrol vehicles suddenly appeared, Cayetano said the smuggler told the group to run.

He ran with the baby
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