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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Katie McQue

‘It didn’t need to end this way’: mother of US teen trafficked and killed decries police failures

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Robyn Cory at home in Houston in this 2024 picture. Photograph: Tola Olawale/The Guardian

The family of Kristen Galvan, a 15-year-old Houston girl who was sex trafficked and murdered, says law enforcement failed her twice by not protecting her after she gave forensic interviews about her traffickers, and later by taking more than six years to identify her remains.

The Texas attorney general’s office announced on 28 July that Kristen’s remains had been positively identified using advanced DNA testing conducted over the past year. Parts of her skull, clothing and an earring were found beneath a bridge beside a jogging trail in Missouri City, about 10 miles outside Houston.

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