The Family Speaks Of A Missing Young Transgender Woman

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The family of a young transgender woman who disappeared in Texas maintains the faith of finding her alive. Kimberly Ávila's mother and sister spoke to Primer Impacto (Univision) about the odyssey they have experienced since the young woman disappeared the night of May 13, 2017. Her sister Ivonne left Kimberly, 35, in the center of the city, where he would meet friends. "When I got to that corner to leave her, I had a feeling and I said to her: 'It's late, we better go,'" recalls her sister. "I walked around three times and begged her to go home."

However Kimberly didn't listen to her and that was the last time he saw her alive. His mother Elvira Cárdenas woke up that morning also with a bad feeling. "Unfortunately I was not wrong," regrets the mother. "She didn't come back anymore."

Her sister tried to find her and ask her friends about her, but nobody knew anything. The family believes that the fact that she was a young transgender person made the authorities not pay the same attention to the case. "We did not have the support of the police," says her sister.

Less than a year ago, investigators received an anonymous call, giving new clues about the case that led them to the city of Waco. However, the family assures that the mystery remains unsolved and asks this anonymous person to call the police again to give more information about Ávila's whereabouts.

The family shared their theory of what could have happened to Ávila. Her sister thinks she got into the car of someone she knew. “She got on with someone she knew, someone who gave her confidence. That person - or people, I don't know - did him wrong.”

Ivonne puts up posters with photos of her sister asking for information throughout the city, but she assures that they have suffered discrimination for being a transgender. “They destroy them, they burn them, they break them, they put some very ugly words on his photo. There are many cruel people, she says.

The mother begs those who have information about the case to call the authorities. "This pain does not compare to anything," he concludes. "I do want to know what happened to him, where they left him, if they did anything to him."

There is a $ 10,000 reward for valuable information on the case. If you know anything about the whereabouts of Kimberly Ávila please call the Brownsville Police Department at 956-548-7000.