✝️ *Daphne, age 14 – August 14 2016, Orlando, Florida, USA 🇺🇸💔
*Daphne wanted to become a veterinarian.
As the summer break wound down, two sisters in Orlando, Florida, set out to enjoy their last week of reprieve before heading back to classes, cheer squad and volleyball tryouts. Those plans were dashed after a visit to a friend’s house turned sinister.
There, the girls, ages 14 and 15, met 22-year-old Jose Ignacia Santiago-Sotomayor, a convicted felon. Hours later, her daughters found themselves in a stranger’s house, waking from a drug-induced haze. Thus began what police later described as a weeklong nightmare of sexual assault and trafficking, forced drug use, threats of gun violence and — for *Daphne — death in the back seat of her alleged captor’s car.. The perpetrators had kept the girls captive, plied them with drugs and advertised them in sexual services ads online over a period of at least seven days.The girl was forced into prostitution by Karla Michelle Quiros Alsina, 20, Arthur Lee Coleman III, 26, Avorice Jena Holman, 19, and Jose Ignacio Santiago-Sotomayor, 22.
*Daphne died from an overdose of Xanax and over-the-counter medication. Her death was discovered when one of her captors took her to the emergency room, though she was already deceased.
