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WEST VALLEY CITY — It's been almost 10 days since a desperate mother has seen her daughter.
Police have listed Ingrid Dossantos, 17, as a runaway but her family disagrees. They say the details surrounding her disappearance don’t add up because she didn’t take her cellphone, her debit card or even pick up her paycheck from work.
“I just want her home. I just want to feel that she's alive, that she's safe. I just want to hug her,” said her mother, Ana Slack. “I want to think that she's safe. I don't want to think that she's dead or that she’s hiding or hurt (by) someone.”
The Slack family says for more than a week there have been more questions than answers surrounding their daughter's disappearance.
“She never just leaves without saying where she's going,” said her father, Shane Slack.
Last Tuesday Ingrid was home watching her little sister after school while her mother ran an errand. But when her mother came back, Ingrid was gone.
“My garage door was open. Isabella was in the garage by herself with her bottle and some diapers,” Ana Slack said.
Ana Slack said finding her 2-year-old daughter alone was the first sign she knew something wasn't right.
Since that day, Ingrid has been missing. But the day after she vanished, her boyfriend received a strange message on Snapchat that he forwarded to her dad.
“I am not in Utah anymore and I am not coming back. I don’t even know the people I am with. I’m far, far, far away,” the message read.
Since then, her boyfriend says he hasn't heard from her. Neither have her parents, something they say is very unusual.
Police say based on the information they have, they don't believe Ingrid is in any immediate danger and she still listed as a runaway, but they are still investigating.
