The drug-trafficking father of one of many 19 children slain within the Texas faculty bloodbath has been denied compassionate launch from federal jail to go to his daughter’s funeral.
Eli Torres confirmed to the Houston Chronicle that he was denied short-term go away to pay his closing respects to his daughter Eliahna, 10, whom he was anticipating to see this week in a jail go to.
As a substitute, he's solely allowed to look at a livestream of Thursday’s service from contained in the Kentucky lockup the place he's serving 25 years for drug trafficking and conspiracy.
“The times and nights, they’re darkish … I can’t see no gentle,” the one-time gang chief mentioned of being compelled to grieve alone whereas behind bars.
His case has been picked up by native campaigners, with Kentucky state Rep. Attica Scott on Tuesday writing on to President Biden, begging him to intervene.
“I can solely think about the depth of the void that these victims’ absences will go away of their household’s lives,” Scott wrote, pleading with Biden to assist “unite” the household in a time of overwhelming loss.
The native rep. insisted that Torres’ “rehabilitation file and conduct as an inmate would benefit” such a brief launch, with out elaborating.
Nevertheless, Torres — who led a violent gang dubbed “The Texas Syndicate,” courtroom information present — appeared keen responsible his personal life decisions, which noticed him incarcerated for many of his younger daughter’s life.
“The alternatives I made, it value me,” he advised the Chronicle of gang-banging and drug trafficking.
“I may have prevented this from occurring, one way or the other, a way, as a father. … I may have stopped it one way or the other. Protected her,” he mentioned.
As a substitute, he has been left solely with sleepless nights stuffed with nightmares about his daughter, whom he mentioned he repeatedly spoke to in jail calls and despatched him her closing letter days earlier than she was gunned down alongside 18 faculty pals and two lecturers in Robb Elementary Faculty.
Visitation for his daughter is about to start out late Wednesday, with the funeral 11 a.m. Thursday.
“In her quick time dwelling with us, Eliahna managed to have a huge effect in lots of lives,” her obituary says of the Tik Tok-loving “grasp of jests.”
“She was a loving and compassionate one who cherished to be foolish. She had essentially the most lovely smile that might gentle up your soul.”
The Bureau of Prisons mentioned it couldn't remark or present particulars because of “privateness, security, and safety causes.”
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