The family of a grandmother with dementia says the 68-year-old has been missing for more than a week from a shelter in Harlem. astridtv1 has the latest on the search for Margareta Bernadez.
-- A family in search of a better future was granted entry into the United States, only to find agony.
Maidy, her husband, children, and mother-in-law fled their homeland of Honduras to escape threats of violence. They recently arrived in the U.S. in search of peace.Fighting back tears, Maidy asked CBS2 not to show their identity because of their temporary refugee status. She explained that after traveling for months from the Mexico border, the family arrived in the Bronx on May 31 in the middle of the night.
Maidy said in Spanish that when the family arrived at Franklin, the staff admitted the grandmother but refused to take Margareta's depression and schizophrenia medication.The family went back to Franklin shelter to get updates on Margareta, but they say they were denied information for five days. "They had a van that was leaking oil and they were concerned about the van, putting people in the van. So they gave her a MetroCard and told her to take the subway, which was three stops away," McQuistion said.The family said the shelter didn't report Margareta missing until the family called police on Monday."And they come all the way to New York and thinking they're going to be finally safe and the worst thing has happened to them," McQuistion said.