Police arrested and charged a father and son early Thursday in connection with the murder of a pregnant teenager who was about to give birth, and her boyfriend, in San Antonio last month.

Christopher Preciado, 19, was charged with capital murder while his father, 53-year-old Ramon Preciado, was charged with abuse of a corpse for allegedly helping to move the bodies of Savanah Soto, 18, and Matthew Guerra, 22, who were found shot dead in a car.

A conviction for capital murder is punishable by the death penalty or life imprisonment.

San Antonio Police Department confirmed the charges in a statement and said more charges are pending, possibly relating to the death of the unborn child.

  • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
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    6 months ago

    You’ve clearly never spent any significant amount of time with drug addicts if you think every woman would stop using drugs because they’re pregnant/about to deliver.

    CPS in Texas immediately takes babies away if the moms test positive for drugs (hospitals are mandatory reporters for it), and it happens a ton.

    Source: My wife used to do drug counseling intakes, and a large portion of those were CPS cases where the baby was taken away at birth, and she has several friends who work in L&D who corroborate it.

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      6 months ago

      OP says he thinks she wouldn’t be looking for drugs because the hospital was about to fill her with painkillers anyway, not because she was pregnant