article_snippet: Vilma Maldonado says Vilma Maldonado son was forced to leave because of death threats from gangs when her son was only 15 years old.  
article_snippet: her son left La Lima, just outside San Pedro Sula, four years ago at the age of 19.
article_snippet: The last time she heard from her son her son was in Monterrey, Mexico, hoping to cross into the United States.
article_snippet: Sometimes I think her son's dead," Vilma Maldonado says crying.
article_snippet: Back in Omoa, Mercedes Meléndez, the mother of Alexis González, says she's deeply worried about she son.
article_snippet: her son has told me that her son's depressed.
article_snippet: her son has recently been better, but her son used to say her son wanted to die.  
article_snippet: I was getting very worried because her son said that her son wanted to kill her son," Meléndez says.