We need your help by signing this petition to let the Texas governor, parole, judge and TDCJ hear our calls to help free Lizette Deluna and give her Justice. Help us reach our goal of 1,500!

Lizette was wrongfully convicted for a crime she didn’t commit, she was a sex trafficking victim who was held against her will! Lizette has been incarcerated since 2014 for a 15 year sentence, she’s done 9 years, that’s more than half her time for being a victim of sex trafficking!! She doesn’t need incarceration she needs therapy by counseling and if she comes home her family can help her with that. She was a victim of sex trafficking but the law instead labeled her a pimp because of her age. 

You may be wondering who Lizette is, or why we want to see her freed, and from where. Well, Lizette is an actual person, a woman who represents so many women who are human trafficking victims who are being treated as criminals. 
Typically, when we speak out, we change the name of the victim, but we are using Lizette’s real name, Lizette Deluna, because she is a real person who we want to see freed. 

Lizette’s story is more common than you might think. She is a girl who was sexually abused, had no father figure in her life, and was looking for love and belonging. This is where almost every victim we have met has started. This is the most common foundation of trafficking victims and those who become exploited in the sex industry. 

Lizette found herself being recruited into prostitution by a woman and a minor, on behalf of a pimp. Lizette was unwilling at first, but she eventually agreed, out of desperation, to work for this pimp. 

When anyone works in prostitution, and another person takes all or any of the money paid, the person taking the money is trafficking. Lizette’s pimp took half of the income she made. He used brutal tactics to ensure she would not get away when she tried, which included beating her so badly, she was unrecognizable to friends. 

Traffickers are smart about what they are doing. They try to not put their names on anything that could lead to a conviction. They make their victims register for hotel rooms, answer phone calls, make ads, and train other victims to prostitute. 
Because Lizette did one of these things, not because she took any money, or was in fact trafficking a minor, but because she did what she was told by answering phone calls, Lizette was charged with trafficking a minor, and even received more charges for trafficking than the actual pimp who was trafficking them both. Lizette is a victim, not a trafficker. 

Because she has been charged with trafficking of a minor, Lizette will leave prison, not only having done her time for a crime she didn’t commit, but also another crime she was forced into, Lizette will leave prison, not only as a felon, but also as a registered sex offender, unless she receives a pardon. 

We are labeling victims as criminals, tarnishing any hope they have of living a normal life by branding them as sex offenders. Just imagine going through the horrors of being sex trafficked: the dehumanizing, abuse, control, coercion, and fear-based tactics, to name a few, and then to not only be treated and sentenced as a criminal, but to be labeled as a sex offender for life. Even people who commit horrible sexual crimes against children do not usually receive a lifelong label of sex offender. Not only are you looked down on by society, but you cannot live or work in certain places. This is a serious criminalization, which is incredibly unjustified in Lizette’s and so many women’s cases. 

What we believe is a great injustice in Lizette’s case is that she was not given a chance to speak at her trial. Her lawyer advised that she not testify. Because of this, she most likely received a tougher sentence, and inaccurate information was given about her and the trial. In an article about Lizette in the Texas Tribune, the DA’s office stated that she was afraid to testify. This is not true. She was advised not to testify. “Without Yvette's (Lizette’s) testimony against her pimp, Lunan (head of the sex-trafficking unit at the time) said, there was nothing he could do to help her” (Smith, 2017). 

Because she was not given a chance to speak to defend herself, we want to be a voice for Lizette, and others in the same situations. God has called us to be a voice for the voiceless (Proverbs 31:8), and we want to respond faithfully.
We see human trafficking victims incarcerated instead of being rehabilitated all the time, and so often, as in Lizette’s case, the victims get a greater punishment than their actual traffickers. 

As it should, Lizette’s story gained national attention because of the injustice committed against her. 

We are fighting to help get Lizette free from the charges against her, and asking for a full pardon, especially of the sex offender charge

Lizette was 21 when she was victimized into sex trafficking & robbery. The victimized are abused, drugged and forced into doing things for the ring leader(s). These ring leaders recruit woman of all ages, race, ethnicity. She was then wrongfully accused and charged with robbery, compel prostitution & traffic of child forced labor, she was sentenced to 15 years. The law instead labeled Lizette as the pimp instead of a victim. Despite the laws view of her, Lizette continued to live every minute wishing to make up for her past mistakes behind those prison walls. Even though Lizette has proven worthy of parole through programs, good behavior and accountability, her chance to be granted parole would repeatedly fall through the cracks despite parole’s promise to give a chance to come home early if compliant. It’s been 9 years since Lizette was involved into this crime. That young 21 year old woman who made a foolish decision is now a 30 year old educated, skilled, and respectable woman waiting for her opportunity to be free so she can start a program to help woman who been in her shoes. Please help be a voice by signing this petition.

We ask that to give Lizette a fair shot to freedom by analyzing her current character rather than just stamping her freedom away. If released Lizette plans to become a mentor and a motivational speaker to speak on her survival story and to empower woman to come together who’ve been sexually abused, sex trafficked and raped. 

Lizette’s story has been publicized on True Crime Daily. Her interview starts at 3:09.

Much like the heroin epidemic we are now facing, sex-trafficking is a massive problem in the United States.
These are not just women being brought in from other countries. We're talking about teens, or even younger, being recruited from middle schools and high schools in just about every city in America.
So far we've taken you undercover on sex-trafficking stings and you've see some cities that have become sex-slave hubs.
Crime Watch Daily interviews a young woman lured into the sex-trade world and how it's now landed her in prison doing serious time.
Lizette Deluna ran from abuse at home into the arms of a sex-trafficker. Now she's in prison in Texas, convicted of trafficking herself. How did she get there? She share her journey exclusively with Crime Watch Daily.”

So many victims of human trafficking in Texas are criminalized, Pimps coerce their victims into doing their dirty work so they have no paper trail to convict them. They make their victims do things such as renting hotel rooms under their name, answering phone calls to Johns, recruiting and teaching other victims how to solicit themselves, etc. Under Texas law, anyone who has any involvement in someone being trafficked, such as anything listed above, can be sentenced as a trafficker, and charged as a sex offender, what these victims need is rehabilitation instead of a prison sentence if they are forced to participate in the act of trafficking. When a human trafficking survivor is convicted as a sex offender, they have to go through a sex offender treatment program, which can be very traumatizing. The Texas governor and Bryan Collier who is head of Huntsville can make a decision to free Lizette if we the people can ask for it.

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