A heartbroken San Antonio mother is pleading for the return of her daughter, an 18-year-old who vanished just as she was due to give birth. Savanah Nicole Soto was reported missing after failing to appear for a scheduled induction at the hospital on Saturday, leaving her family in a state of distress and confusion. The last time Gloria Cordova heard from her pregnant daughter was on Friday, as reported by KENS 5.
Anxious to check on her, Cordova went to her daughter's apartment but found it empty, with repeated knocks going unanswered. Cordova detailed the experience to KENS 5, "I went by there and knocked and knocked and knocked and she wasn’t answering." Further adding to the worry, her daughter's phone appeared dead, and attempts to contact Soto's boyfriend, Mathew Guerra, were unsuccessful. According to information obtained by MySA, the Leon Valley Police have commenced a missing person investigation but have not confirmed whether a report for Guerra has been filed.
The case takes on a deeper poignancy with Cordova's disclosure to KENS 5 of still grieving the loss of another child last year. "It’s hard, it’s like one after another," the distressed mother said. She described an optimistic Savanah who had prepared a nursery and was looking forward to giving birth with her own mother by her side in the delivery room.
Now, on Christmas Eve, Cordova is faced with another unimaginable sorrow, having lost her 15-year-old son and not knowing where her daughter, due to become a mother herself, is. "It still hurts because what I tell my kids, I’m not complete, I’m not complete and now I don’t have my daughter," she told KENS 5. The police are encouraging anyone with information to step forward and contact Leon Valley Police at (210) 684-8897, in hopes of safely locating Savanah Nicole Soto.
