‘She wanted to be with him,’ he said. ‘But she also didn’t want to hurt her family.’
Letty was a high-achieving student at Marshall Middle School in 2017 when she was drugged and taken by the sex trafficker not far from campus, according to her father.


He said he, and Letty’s godmother, Cynthia Rivera, spent days searching for the teenager before they found her inside an abandoned home. They then took her to safety, and reported her captor to police.
“We were able to locate her and call HPD and have this animal arrested,” Rivera explained.
But Letty’s family said in a separate interview with KTRK that the girl they brought back home was not the same girl who had left.
However, she says, he was let go after a few days. The family adds after Letty’s abduction, she ran away from home twice to be with him. They believe the trafficker worked with at least three other men to move her around and drug her.
Rivera says they preyed on her vulnerabilities.

Since her rescue, Letty had run away from home twice to be with her abductor, who the family say preyed on the teen’s weaknesses, including the fact that she was a loner at school and that her brother had recently died.
To make matters worse, Letty’s godmother said the sex trafficker was freed just six days after being arrested.
Now, Rivera and Mariano Serrano are blaming the unnamed man for Letty’s suicide and want him to face justice.
‘I want to see him in court,’ the Serrano says.
‘I want to tell him it’s his fault my daughter is dead.’