The Ecuadorian Saraí Llanos, found dead in Georgia, would have left the hotel where she was staying on her own hours before she was reported missing on 12 June.
Gardenia Gómez, mother of the 19-year-old girl, told Univision Noticias that staff from the SpringHill hotel where she had been staying in Atlanta since she moved from Chicago, called her to inform her that her daughter had walked out of the place.
“The hotel called me,” Gómez told the network . “They tell me: ‘Ma’am, her daughter is not in the room, she has been out since 12: 30 of the night. She walked out, no one forced her. Someone came to see her in a car,’” recalled the woman who lives in Guayaquil.
It was a Mexican worker from the hostel who went up to the room, checked and alerted the mother. “Things are intact. It’s like your daughter left and never came back”, the employee told him.
Gómez suspects that her daughter was the victim of a woman known as “the Russian”, who was her employer. “It has to be that she took her out with tricks (…) Why would my daughter go out if she doesn’t know anything? If she had two or three days after arriving there?”, declared the woman.
The Ecuadorian woman called the Russian and she told her: “’Your daughter must have gone with some sweetheart for there, do not do anything, or file a complaint. Between Saturday and Sunday they are going to come and leave it for you thrown out here, when they get tired of it’. This is how she answered me.”
The day before her disappearance, Saraí told the mother of she that the Russian had cheated on her. Apparently, Saraí was convinced to move to Atlanta to work as a waitress for better pay. However, when she arrived in the state, she was notified that her work would be as an escort, to which she, annoyed, refused
Saraí told the employer her that she would report her to the authorities. After her threat, she lost track of her.
Saraí’s body was found by a cleaning worker in an Atlanta park near a lake on 20 of June. The body was 10 days in the refrigerator of a morgue until it was identified.
The Hall County Sheriff’s Office confirmed this week that the remains corresponded to Saraí.
Previously, that office released a drawing of a man who is a person of interest in the case. He is seen walking at dawn on June 15 through the area where the young woman was abandoned. Images from security cameras locate him in the area.
At the moment, no arrests have been reported as a result of the investigation that is still open.
Saraí got to Chicago with the help of her godfather, who bought her the plane ticket, in search of a job that would allow her to support her two children, ages three and a half and one and a half, as well as her mother.
The Guayaquil native spent about 10 months with his godfather. At that time, she helped him in the typical Ecuadorian food business that he owned.
“Mommy, the US is beautiful,” Saraí told her mom shortly after arriving in Chicago. .
Later, a friend from Guayaquil told Saraí that she had a friend nicknamed “Shakira”, who could help her get a better job in the US Shakira was the one who connected her with the Russian . The first thing Saraí was told was that she would work in Atlanta as a waitress at a Marriott hotel.
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