Rosa Franco Sandoval, whose 15-year-old daughter was raped and killed, has spent decades fighting to improve the handling of violence against girls and women.
Rosa Franco Sandoval, center, attends a ceremony with her family in honor of her slain daughter, María Isabel Véliz Franco, on Tuesday at the Organization of American States office in the District. Rosa Franco Sandoval strode through a suburban grocery store, picking through shelves and checking prices. She looked, in her own estimation, unremarkable — a 62-year-old, a mother, a grandmother, an immigrant.
Franco’s story is little known in the Washington region, where she has lived for three years. But in her home country — and in Central American human rights circles — the case that spurred her to action is widely recognized. The gruesome memory of her daughter’s remains — the last image she has of her child — still weighs heavily on Franco and her family. She has mentally carried it with her to testify before governments and to champion the creation of the 2016 Isabel-Claudina alert — a national alert system instituted to respond to the disappearances of Guatemalan women and girls more quickly.
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