Just over a week ago, 19 children and two adults were killed when Salvador Ramos entered a primary school in Texas and started firing.
The first funerals were held on Tuesday. On that occasion, Kim Kardashian is now using her voice to fight to allow a jailed father of one of the shooting victims to be temporarily released to attend his daughter’s funeral.
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Has been rejected
On Instagram, Kardashian has shared a photo of the 10-year-old girl Eliahana “Ellie” Cruz Torres with the following text:
“The family is desperately hoping that her father, who is jailed for a non-violent drug crime, will be released temporarily so he can attend her funeral.”
Furthermore, she writes that the request to the father has so far been rejected.
“I’m asking the Federal Bureau of Prisons to give Eli Torres a temporary release so he can say a final goodbye to the girl. All parents deserve that right “, she writes further.
“I could have stopped it”
The father, who is serving a 25-year sentence for drug smuggling, has been given the opportunity to watch a live broadcast of the funeral, but has expressed a desire to be physically present during the funeral.
In an interview with The Houston Chronicle, the father said that the mistakes he has made have cost him more than just his freedom.
– I could have prevented this from happening, in one way or another as a father. I could have stopped it somehow. Protected her, he told the newspaper.
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