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2 Rhode Island children stuck in Mexico after medical emergency on cruise vacation
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“They keep on asking me the same thing, ‘Mommy, how am I gonna get back to you?’ And it’s just really sad because I don’t have an answer.”
A Rhode Island mother is searching for a way to get her kids back home from Mexico, where they have become stranded without passports following a medical emergency on a cruise vacation, NBC 10 WJAR reports.
Sarah Martin told the station she sent her kids on the spring break vacation, which departed from Miami, with their grandparents. They were “having the time of their lives,” she said, until their grandmother had a heart attack, requiring she and the children to be transported to Cozumel, Mexico, where she remains in a medically-induced coma.
The children did not carry their passports with them on the cruise, so Martin told WJAR she has been asking the U.S. Embassy for assistance in getting her kids home. Her 8-year-old son, she said, is days away from running out of his epilepsy medication.
“They keep on asking me the same thing, ‘Mommy, how am I gonna get back to you?’ And it’s just really sad because I don’t have an answer,” Martin said.
Read the full story at WJAR.