Search for girl, 3, adds to list of kids missing in December
As the search for 3-yearold Lina Sardar Khil continues, six other children in San Antonio also were reported missing this month, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The center’s website lists 34 active cases of missing children from the San Antonio area. Twenty-one of those children were reported missing this year, but some of the cases date as far back as 1988.
The San Antonio community has been on high alert since Lina was reported missing Monday night. She
was last seen at a playground inside her gated community on the Northwest Side, and San Antonio police have worked around the clock searching for her.
“We aren’t giving up. We don’t end the search at the end of shift,” Police Chief William Mcmanus said. “We are here until we find her.”
Lina isn’t the only child recently reported missing in the San Antonio area.
This week, 15-year-old Paradise Castillo and 13year-old Kathrine Noblitt were reported missing since Dec. 19 and Dec. 14, respectively.
Aiden Rodriguez, 15; Kaylee Martinez, 15; Valen Villanueva, 17; and Mya Stevens, 14, have been missing since Dec. 5. Officials have not indicated whether they were believed to have been abducted or whether they ran away.
The day Lina disappeared, three Hondo siblings also went missing. The Wright children — Ariana, 8;
Lucas, 9; and Jonathan, 11 — are thought to be with their father, 40-year-old Jonathan Wright, who is wanted on multiple felony warrants.
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, runaways account for a majority of the missing child cases reported to the organization. Most of those children are 12 to 17 years old.
Four of San Antonio’s oldest unsolved disappearances of children date back more han 20 years. The oldest active case is the 1988 disappearance of 16-year-old Samuel Ray Rawls.