Zephy Trvino was a normal teenage girl growing up outside of Dallas, Texas, with a life

that revolves around family, church, and softball.

When Zephy got to high school, a boyfriend introduced her to drugs and then broke her heart.

Then, 19-year-old Philip Baldenegro swooped in through social media to pray on this vulnerable

high school softball.

Baldenegro introduced himself to Zephy's parents as a friend of Zephy's from school and

soon used psychological manipulation, violence, and intimidation to drag Zephy into the dark

underworld of sex trafficking.

Alarming changes in Zephy's behavior prompted Henry and Crystal Trvino to install a tracking

app on their daughter's phone, but this didn't stop Baldenegro from using Zephy's body

and her misery for his profit.

Then, on August 3, 2019, two men were lured to an apartment with a promise of sex with

Zephy.

They were robbed, instead, by Baldenegro and an accomplice and a fight broke out, resulting

in Baldenegro shooting and killing one of the would-be child rapists.

This is going to be a first for this podcast, an interview that takes place before trial,

before a grave mistake is made, where I speak with Zephy's lawyer Justin Moore and her

mother, Crystal Trvino.

Zephy is currently out of Juve awaiting trial while the Dallas County District Attorney

tries to charge her for her sex traffickers' crime, compounding what has already been an

unbelievably tragic experience by potentially sending Zephy to spend the rest of her life

in prison.

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