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Reality star Kim Kardashian took to social media Thursday to plead with the Bureau of Prisons to release the father of one of the child victims in Uvalde, Texas, temporarily “so that he can attend her funeral.”
“Her family are desperately hoping that her father, who is incarcerated for a non violent drug offense, be granted temporary release so that he can attend her funeral,” Kardashian wrote in a tweet.
https://twitter.com/KimKardashian/status/1532361674170277888According to her, the family’s “requests have been denied.”
“I ask the @officialFBOP to grant Eli Torres temporary release so that he can say his last goodbye to his baby girl. Every parent deserves that right.”
Torres is reportedly serving a 25-year sentence at the McCreary United States Penitentiary in Pine Knot, Kentucky.
Kentucky state Rep. Attica Scott also took to Twitter, sharing a letter she wrote to President Joe Biden.
“While the Bureau of Prisons has denied the request to allow Eliahna’s father to attend her funeral, our advocacy on behalf of her family must persist. I sent this letter to @POTUS and @GovAndyBeshear demanding they do something!”
https://twitter.com/atticaforky/status/1531750027810549761
In a May interview, Torres wondered if he could have stopped the shooting that took his daughter. “I could have prevented this from happening, somehow, some way, as a father. … I could have stopped it somehow. Protected her,” he said.
He explained, “The choices I made, it cost me.”
“The days and nights, they’re dark,” Torres continued. “I can’t see no light.”
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Of those politicizing the fatal school shooting in Uvalde, he said: “Understand that none of us here give a crap about that right now.”
“The only thing we care about right now is the fact that we lost a loved one — how the hell are we going to put this back together?”
“The world needs more positive people,” Torres explained. “More love and faith in the air that guides people, that takes people to places that they dream of — not places to where they will never return from.”
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The shooting left 21 people dead, including 19 children, and rocked the small South Texas town.
Both the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Ranger Division and the U.S. Justice Department are conducting investigations into the police response to the active shooter at Robb Elementary School.
