Zephaniah “Zephi” Trevino is a 16-year-old Latinx girl who has been accused of aggravated robbery and capital murder. Zephaniah was approached in May 2019 by a sex trafficker who used drugs, threats of physical assault, and threats of death against her family Zephaniah is an underage victim of sex trafficking. She was manipulated by her groomer, an adult, who also confessed to pulling the trigger. Zephaniah has spent a year in jail, without being convicted of any crime. Due to the COVID crisis,

she has not been able to see her family since March.

Before this, Zephaniah was an active member of her community; her family raised her by their faith, she played softball, and had made the drill team at her local high school in Grand Prairie, Texas. Zephaniah is an innocent girl who is spending her junior year in prison for a crime that happened during her captivity. Zephaniah should be deciding which colleges to apply for; instead, she is behind bars. Her abuser, and the man who confessed to pulling the trigger, is on the streets while he awaits trial. He was allowed

bail while she was denied. Zephaniah does not pose any danger to the community.

Please sign this petition to show support for the innocence of Zephaniah Trevino, and to show the Texas justice system their shortcomings in defense of black and brown children and teenagers. We demand that DA Creuzot drop the charges and immediately release her so that she and her family can begin to heal.