Irma Reyes had been barely able to eat since she heard that Texas prosecutors planned to let the two men charged with sex trafficking her daughter walk free. She was going to court to try to stop them.
Trafficking cases in particular have come under scrutiny and cast doubt on how the agency, which fights court battles affecting people far beyond Texas, uses millions of state tax dollars on an issue that Republican leaders trumpet as a priority while attacking Democrats’ approach to border security.
In court, Reyes listened as the judge summarized the cases' twists and turns: years lost to the pandemic, delays due to “turnover in the attorney general’s office,” days of testimony last year only for several people to catch COVID-19 and prompt a mistrial. Reyes thought of her daughter as she approached the front of the courtroom to make a victim’s impact statement.
Court records show it was only days after Reyes’ daughter and another girl ran away from rehab that their photos were advertised online for “dates." They met “Blue” outside a motel, where they couldn’t afford a night’s stay. He introduced them to “Rocky.” The pair rented the girls a room, helped set up meetings with men who’d pay for sex, and collected half the money, according to the records.
After the judge declared a mistrial last June, Reyes, her daughter and the prosecutor agreed to bring the case again. But that prosecutor resigned without explanation soon after, amid a wave of seasoned lawyers quitting the attorney general’s office over practices they said were meant to slant legal work, reward loyalists and drum out dissent.
She cried on the way home. Reyes didn’t know how to explain to her daughter and wished the young woman would come home. She felt isolated and had violent nightmares.
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