Jean Carlo Martinez Rivero, five, was pronounced dead at the hospital Sunday after days of being sick at the Pilsen shelter south of downtown Chicago. Volunteers saw it coming.
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The migrant mother from Venezuela who was arrested Saturday after allegedly blocking traffic and scuffling with police said the confrontation began when police officers wouldn’t allow her to bring her 3-year-old child into the public bathroom inside the Southwest Side police station. “I was desperate,” Dayrelys Coy, 21, told the Tribune Monday. “All the children and women needed to use a clean .