He left with his mother, but arrived alone: ​​the road from Wilton until it was abandoned at the border

Little Wilton Gutiérrez, 10, left a rural area of ​​Nicaragua with his mother, Meylin del Socorro Obregón, in early February.

She had decided to seek a better future in the United States after separating from her partner.

The idea was to reach out to relatives

who live in Florida. 

They managed to advance along the difficult migratory path to northern Mexico.

But in that country everything went wrong.

Wilton did end up reaching the other side of the border, but his mom was no longer with him.

Not anyone else

. 

[A Border Patrol agent rescues a migrant child abandoned at the border: "Aren't you coming with Mommy or Daddy?"]

As he tearfully told the Border Patrol agent who was found walking alone in southeast Texas and treated him, the people he crossed with left him "dumped."

His main concern, he added, was that someone would try to "steal" or "kidnap" him.

That is why he needed help.

"I am afraid," he said

.

Everything was recorded in the images of the body camera carried by the officer, released to the media. 

Authorities housed him in a shelter for unaccompanied migrant minors, as the mother's whereabouts are unknown.

[On video: A coyote throws two girls off the border wall before fleeing]

At first, this boy with dark skin, black hair and terrified eyes

did not even know the name

.

But after locating several of his relatives in both the United States and Nicaragua, Noticias Telemundo has reconstructed part of his story and how he lost contact with his mother before being

lost in a remote rural area on the border between Mexico and Texas

. 

The Nicaraguan authorities also shared details of the case by reporting that they had located the boy's father, who is called Lázaro Gutiérrez and is a farmer by profession, in the municipality of Muelle de los Bueyes. 

The father of the migrant child found alone at the border reacts to the video of the minor asking for help

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Find out from the news

Misael Obregón, Wilton's maternal uncle who lives in Florida, was moved that

he found out what had happened to his nephew from the news

.

"Only a heartless person may not feel anything when watching that video," he said while trying to hold back the tears. 

According to his story, both the boy and his mother fled Nicaragua

because her partner abused her

.

Along with them were two of Misael's children, both minors.

But on the border of Mexico the destinies of the four were separated. 

[An immigrant falls into a well on the border and is trapped for hours feeling threatened by a snake]

While the two boys did manage to cross and catch up with their father, Meylin del Socorro and Wilton were trapped on US soil and returned to Mexico. 

Then, they were kidnapped

, according to Misael Obregón.

The man explained that those who organized the kidnapping called him and asked for a ransom for both of them, but he did not have enough money.

"I could only pay for the boy's ransom, $ 5,000," he said.

[Mother looks for her two children who crossed the border alone]

Thus, Wilton was released alone, and later crossed the border with a group of other people, until he was abandoned.

Of his mother, however, the trail has been lost

. 

The Nicaraguan government requested Interpol's help in locating her, while it has been negotiating with Mexico and the United States to seek a solution, including the possibility of repatriating the woman and her child. 

"I could only pay the ransom of the child": the uncle of the minor found alone at the border tells that he was kidnapped

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Heartbreak for Meylin and relief that Wilton is alive

Wilton's father, Lázaro Gutiérrez, couldn't help crying when our reporter in Nicaragua, Alfonso Flores, showed him

the video of his son pleading for help from the Border Patrol

.

Asked if he ever imagined that the child could go through something like this, Gutiérrez replied:

"Maybe not ..."

.

And he added: "But that's how it happened." 

The man explained that he did not know much about the journey that the little boy and his mother undertook, but he did know that a brother of hers was helping her.

With him was his other son Delvin, 12, who now longs for a reunion with his mother and brother.

He, he said, would like "for them to come."

["They didn't let us talk at immigration."

This is how these mothers were returned to Mexico]

For her part, Socorro Leiva, the maternal grandmother of these two children, received with relief the news that Wilton was alive.

"I cried, but I cried with joy," she said on Friday, "proud of that child, how he expressed himself, how he asked the agent for help." 

However, he is now very concerned for his daughter Meylin.

"That my daughter is alive is the first thing that I wish"

, affirmed. 

US authorities are studying whether Wilton can stay with his uncle Misael Obregón after he requested it, the man confirmed to Noticias Telemundo. 

"I am willing to play the role of father and mother for him," he

said.