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PHOENIX -- The mother of a missing 13-year-old Guatemalan boy has hope her youngest son is alive, even though there has been no news of him since he disappeared last summer.
"In four days, it will be six months that I haven't heard his voice. Where is he?" she asked. "I want to know that he's OK. To know where he is more than anything. "
Nelson Omar Chilel Lopez, 13, begged his mother to smuggle him from their hometown in Guatemala to America so he could join her and his siblings in the Phoenix area.
"He insisted. 'I want to go. I want to go.' He said he could take it. I told him he was going to walk a lot. He said, 'Nope, I can do it,'" said Fermina, who asked to be identified only by her first name, and who is in the country illegally.
But Nelson never arrived.
Smugglers hired by Fermina to guide Nelson through the desert told her they left Nelson behind in the desert with an older woman from his hometown last summer, when temperatures were well over 100 degrees.
"They (the smugglers) told me they had walked for 10 hours and he stayed," said Fermina. "He said, 'I can't walk anymore.'"
"I'm afraid the story of Nelson will be forever without a finish," said Lydia Guzman.
Guzman works for Respect Respeto, a group that help illegals immigrants.
Guzman said she has called the Mexican and Guatemalan consulates and the Department of Homeland Security.
She said she has visited drop houses, including one in Phoenix where 11 children were found last Thursday.
She said she also routinely checks in with coroners' offices.
Guzman said there has been no sign of Nelson.
"We're looking for him under every rock and I just don't know where else to call," she said.
"What I think is that if somebody has him, or if somebody picked him up in the desert, call me," said Fermina, "so that I can receive him or they can tell me where he is or where they've seen him."
Like Guzman, Fermina said she does not know where to search for her son, but said that will not stop her from continuing to search for him.
"I don't know how to do it," she said. "But all I want to do is find him."
