A 26 year-old Mexican man named Jesus Manuel Cordova helped save a 9 year-old boy whose mother was killed in a car crash somewhere in the Southern Arizona desert. Cordova was in the process of sneaking into the U.S. when he found the boy and offered him help. Let’s go to Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada for a synopsis straight out of a Lifetime TV movie:

As temperatures dropped, he gave him a jacket, built a bonfire and stayed with him until about 8 a.m. Friday, when hunters passed by and called authorities, Estrada said. The boy was flown to University Medical Center in Tucson as a precaution but appeared unhurt.

“We suspect that they communicated somehow, but we don’t know if he knows Spanish or if the gentleman knew English,” Estrada said of the boy.

“For a 9-year-old it has to be completely traumatic, being out there alone with his mother dead,” Estrada said. “Fortunately for the kid, (Cordova) was there. That was his angel.”

This is ever so slightly different from our own experience being touched by an Angel. Who, incidentally, was also trying to sneak across a certain border.

Illegal Immigrant Is Boy’s Guardian Angel [CBS News]