Kim Kardashian advocated for Eli Torres, dad to Texas shooting victim

Kim Kardashian is making an attempt to assist the incarcerated father of a Uvalde, Texas, faculty capturing sufferer — by asking jail officers to free him in order that he can attend the kid’s funeral.

“That is Eliahana ‘Ellie’ Cruz Torres, 10 years previous, and one of many 19 victims of the capturing in Uvalde, TX,” Kardashian stated in a tweet. “Her household are desperately hoping that her father, who's incarcerated for a peaceful drug offense, be granted momentary launch in order that he can attend her funeral.”

Eli Torres is an inmate at a federal jail in Kentucky for a gang-related drug-trafficking offense, the San Antonio Categorical Information reported.

“To date their requests have been denied. I ask the @officialFBOP to grant Eli Torres momentary launch in order that he can say his final goodbye to his child woman. Each mother or father deserves that proper.”

Kardashian’s plea might have come too late. She despatched the tweet Thursday, the identical day as Eliahana’s funeral. Her 11 a.m. service went on with out her father.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons denied Torres’ request to attend the funeral in individual, however did enable him to look at a livestream of his daughter’s service from behind bars, in response to the Categorical Information.

A memorial cross for Eliahana Torres,
Eliahana “Ellie” Cruz Torres was one of many 21 capturing victims at Robb Elementary College final week.
REUTERS/Marco Bello

“The alternatives I made, it price me,” he stated. “I may have prevented this from occurring, one way or the other, a way, as a father,” he informed the Categorical Information. “I may have stopped it one way or the other. Protected her.”

Lately, Kardashian has used her actuality TV platform and hundreds of thousands of social media followers to attract consideration to many social causes and advocate for jail inmates. Most not too long ago in Texas, Kardashian lent her help to Texas loss of life row inmate Melissa Lucio. The Texas mother was convicted of killing her 2-year-old, however may have her conviction reviewed in gentle of recent proof.

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