TX TX - Lina Sardar Khil, 3, last seen on playground @ apartment complex, San Antonio, 20 Dec 2021 #2

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The official documents would list whatever age she was assigned, not her literal age.
 
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rosesfromangels said:
But to Afghanistan? I must be misunderstanding the current situation in that country. I was under the impression that would be a perilous trip, but apparently not.

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They were not tourists on holiday -- the wife's parents were ill! And then they were nearly killed near the airport trying to return to USA.

Before she went missing, Lina’s most traumatic experience was in August. She, her brother and her mother were back in Afghanistan to take care of Lina’s mother’s parents, who were sick. The children joined their mother on the trip because Khil was on the road, making long-distance truck deliveries.

They didn’t anticipate how dangerous it would be. The Afghan government was collapsing as U.S. forces withdrew, ending America’s 20-year involvement in Afghanistan. Taliban fighters overran Kabul, the capital.

Lina and her mother and brother were among thousands of Afghans who swarmed the perimeter of the Kabul airport Aug. 26, desperate to escape. Outside the airport’s Abbey Gate, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt. Lina was knocked to the ground and lost consciousness but escaped further injury.

Khil, who was awaiting their arrival in San Antonio, contacted his father-in-law, who took them back to his home. Eventually, the U.S. arranged for their safe departure from Afghanistan, Khil said.

1/16/2022 From freedom to sadness - San Antonio Express, 1/16/2022
 
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More information albeit a bit confusing regarding Lina’s jewelry. From a FB post included in the article, it’s written by the family’s advocate:

2. After multiple questions about jewelry that Lina may have been wearing on the day she disappeared, I asked Riaz, Lina's father of her could share that info with me. He shared the photo with me and gave me permission to release the photo. So many good willed and helpful searchers need this information on their searches and others wanted to start looking in pawn shops. Riaz and his wife have multiple pictures on their phones of Lina and her brother, phones have been investigated by Law Enforcement.
Photo shows clothing, jewelry that missing 3-year-old Lina Khil was wearing the day she disappeared
 
MsMarple said:
More information albeit a bit confusing regarding Lina’s jewelry. From a FB post included in the article, it’s written by the family’s advocate:

2. After multiple questions about jewelry that Lina may have been wearing on the day she disappeared, I asked Riaz, Lina's father of her could share that info with me. He shared the photo with me and gave me permission to release the photo. So many good willed and helpful searchers need this information on their searches and others wanted to start looking in pawn shops. Riaz and his wife have multiple pictures on their phones of Lina and her brother, phones have been investigated by Law Enforcement.
Photo shows clothing, jewelry that missing 3-year-old Lina Khil was wearing the day she disappeared
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Someone may have grabbed her for the jewelry. How horrific.
 
Seattle1 said:
FBI dive team ends search for 3-year-old Lina Sardar Khil 'without conclusive findings'

jan 5, 2022

An FBI dive team has ended its search for missing 3-year-old Lina Sardar Khil without finding any trace of the girl, authorities said Wednesday.

A spokesperson with the San Antonio Police Department told ABC News in a statement Wednesday afternoon that the "dive effort concluded without any conclusive findings" and police have now "broadened the grid" in the search for Lina.

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Lina was last seen on Dec. 20 between 4:30 p.m. and 5:10 p.m. at a park on the 9400 block of Fredericksburg Road in San Antonio, according to police. The park is located near the family's home at the Villa Del Cabo apartment complex.

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McManus said Tuesday Lina is still considered a missing person.

"Our Missing Person's Unit is working tirelessly at receiving leads and tips on little Lina's case," a spokesperson for SAPD told ABC News. "We will continue to follow every lead, no matter how small, until Lina is located."

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Agent Justin Garris of the FBI's Justin San Antonio field office told reporters on Dec. 28 the investigation into Lina's disappearance is "aggressive," adding that the FBI has utilized its child abduction rapid deployment team, behavioral analysis unit, intelligence response teams and forensic examiners.

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The Eagles Flight Advocacy & Outreach organization, a nonprofit in San Antonio, joined the search over the weekend with about 150 people from the Afghan community showing up.

"We can't sit still. We have to do something," Pamela Allen, CEO of Eagles Flight Advocacy and Outreach, told ABC News.

Allen said the group has been in touch with police and was actively searching surrounding areas that are points of interest in the case.

"Yesterday we had about 150 Afghani men and children come out and look for this baby," Allen said, adding that seeing the community come together has been "the most amazing thing."

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Khil said at first they believed that their daughter could be with another Afghan family in the community but now they believe she may have been abducted.

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"A lot of the Afghan refugees coming here, they only speak Pashto or Dari," he said, adding that this is one of the reasons many refugees "struggle to find work."
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I’m getting Dulce Alvarez vibes
 
imstilla.grandma said:
The father of missing 3-year-old child Lina Khil answers some of the hardest question’s viewers are posting.

He tells us that he came to the US under an SIV visa after helping US troops in Afghanistan. He never imagined his child wouldn’t be safe in the safest country in the world, the United States.

We asked his wife for an interview, but it was declined due to their cultural and religious beliefs. The young mother is expecting another child and was in tears when we were invited into their home.
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I hope Lina's family know how many of us are out here praying for them. I can't understand how this little girl disappeared without anyone on the playground noticing anything.
 
I’m trying to work out in my mind what the circumstances were that she was outside playing with other children while she was well dressed with expensive jewelry on.

Maybe the jewelry wasn’t expensive?? Maybe they just got home from somewhere special?? But wasn’t dad at work? Does mom take kiddos out to somewhere special without dad?
 
ArizonaNative said:
I’m trying to work out in my mind what the circumstances were that she was outside playing with other children while she was well dressed with expensive jewelry on.

Maybe the jewelry wasn’t expensive?? Maybe they just got home from somewhere special?? But wasn’t dad at work? Does mom take kiddos out to somewhere special without dad?
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I'm no jewelry expert, but it doesn't look expensive to me. Maybe she just liked to dress up, as a lot of little girls do.
 
ArizonaNative said:
I’m trying to work out in my mind what the circumstances were that she was outside playing with other children while she was well dressed with expensive jewelry on.

Maybe the jewelry wasn’t expensive?? Maybe they just got home from somewhere special?? But wasn’t dad at work? Does mom take kiddos out to somewhere special without dad?
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In the article I linked (I was on my phone and it's a pain to cut and paste large chunks so I left some out) it said Lina was dressed up because she was going to an event with her family. She was probably playing with the kids until they had to leave.

The photo (top of this article) shows Lina in a red dress brocaded with green and gold threads on the front and at the bottom of the sleeves. She’s shown wearing gold dangling earrings, bangle bracelets and a necklace called a Tawiz that contains verses from the Quran.
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The CEO of Eagles Flight Advocacy & Outreach posted the photos on the group’s Facebook page explaining that Lina was dressed for a gathering she was going to attend with her family on Dec. 20, the day she disappeared from a playground in the 9400 block of Fredericksburg Road.​
Photo shows clothing, jewelry that missing 3-year-old Lina Khil was wearing the day she disappeared
 
MassGuy said:
I'm no jewelry expert, but it doesn't look expensive to me. Maybe she just liked to dress up, as a lot of little girls do.
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IMO it's possible the earrings and bangles could be less expensive gold - 9k or 10k for example so no, not much value. I have an antique 9k child's bracelet that passed down through the family - silly if you ask me but kids jewelry is a thing in some families.

But to someone who doesn't know jewelry or is looking for something to steal and sell for drugs it might be tempting.

My gut says Lina isn't a robbery victim but I won't completely exclude the possibility that a person, maybe a younger person, targeted her thinking they could score some money. I've even heard of cases of kids killing for designer running shoes so who knows? It's just not at the top of my list right now.

Poor little sweetheart. :(
 
MsMarple said:
IMO it's possible the earrings and bangles could be less expensive gold - 9k or 10k for example so no, not much value. I have an antique 9k child's bracelet that passed down through the family - silly if you ask me but kids jewelry is a thing in some families.

But to someone who doesn't know jewelry or is looking for something to steal and sell for drugs it might be tempting.

My gut says Lina isn't a robbery victim but I won't completely exclude the possibility that a person, maybe a younger person, targeted her thinking they could score some money. I've even heard of cases of kids killing for designer running shoes so who knows? It's just not at the top of my list right now.

Poor little sweetheart. :(
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If robbery was the motive though, there's no need to remove her from the scene (just grab it and take off). It's not as if she'd be able to fight back.

Also, she should have quickly turned up if the perpetrator did take her for that reason.

So this comes back to sexually motivated abduction for me.
 
blue22 said:
One month. I really thought this would be solved quickly.

I can't help but believe someone saw something and someone knows something and they are key.
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So did I.

These cases typically lend themselves to a quick resolution, even if it is not a happy one. It's unfathomable to me that no one saw anything (I do think this is unlikely), and that apparently nothing was caught on camera.

It's like she was taken by a ghost.
 
MassGuy said:
If robbery was the motive though, there's no need to remove her from the scene (just grab it and take off). It's not as if she'd be able to fight back.

Also, she should have quickly turned up if the perpetrator did take her for that reason.

So this comes back to sexually motivated abduction to me.
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Yeah, that's why robbery is at the bottom of my list. I get queasy thinking about the most obvious motive though. Ugh.
 
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