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Zephaniah is a conniving whore.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (NewsNation Now) — Two teenagers just
outside of Dallas, Texas now face capital murder charges.

At the center of the story: 17-year-old Zephaniah “Zephi”
Trevino and 19-year-old Philip Baldenegro.

Both have been accused of a deadly shooting that happened in
August 2019.

The young girl claims she isn’t guilty and that she was being
sex trafficked by Baldenegro.

Baldenegro’s attorney called the sex trafficking allegations a
“smoke screen.”

The case takes a new step next week.

NewsNation sat down for the first time on national TV with
family and defense attorneys for both sides.
Because Trevino is a juvenile, NewsNation was not granted access
to the court records of this case.

Both teams are now asking the court of public opinion to hear
them out and both sides are begging to be believed.

Two sides to the story
“This is happening in America. This is happening every day. This
happened to my child, it can happen to anyone, any class, any
race,” said Zephaniah’s mother Crystal Trevino.

“I wouldn’t be going public with this information unless I had
this avalanche of Hollywood Kim Kardashian, Jamie Lee Curtis,
Jihad, saying that my guy was a sex trafficker,” said
Baldenegro’s attorney David Finn.

It was the summer of 2019 in Grand Prairie, Texas, when
Zephaniah Trevino and Philip Baldenegro started spending time
together. Finn said the two were high school classmates and
dating.

“It was a boyfriend-girlfriend romantic relationship. 18-year-
old guy, 16-year-old girl. They did what kids do,” said Finn.

Zephaniah’s mother Crystal and family attorney Justin Moore said
they vehemently disagree.

“We have evidence that shows great abuse from this man against
this child,” Moore said. “So, I believe their relationship was
one of predator and prey.”

“When I met Philip in our home, he was introduced to us as a
friend,” Crystal said.

But Crystal said the relationship was far from friendly, now
claiming that her daughter was being sex trafficked by
Baldenegro. Living under threats and forced to engage in
violent, non-consensual activity.

“She would isolate herself. She would not talk a lot. She was
losing weight. She would leave out of the house in one outfit
and come home in something that was totally inappropriate.
Clothes we didn’t buy her,” Crystal said.

Finn called the sex trafficking allegations against his client
“a false narrative.”

He said he’s reviewed both teens’ cellphones — records he plans
to show in court, but can’t release since the case involves a
juvenile. He said texts and images on Zephaniah’s phone don’t
show a girl fearing for her safety, but one who reveled in
rebellion.

“OK, Zephi if that’s the case, what about all these pictures of
you smoking dope and having sex with all these other guys? Were
you forced to do all of that? That you recorded on your own? In
her phone she’s looking for guns all the time,” Finn said. “For
months searching: ‘Glock,’ ‘Glock starter pistol,’ ‘Glock 38,’
pages of it.”

The crime
Then, in August 2019, both teams agree that Zephaniah and
Baldenegro were hanging out at an apartment with a third
acquaintance, Jesse Martinez.

That apartment became the scene of an armed robbery turned
murder.

“What we know is that two grown men showed up to Philip
Baldenegro’s apartment to purchase sex from the child,” Moore
said.

“The child” being Zephaniah.

Baldenegro’s attorney agreed and said that in an attempt to rob
those two men, they were lured to the apartment under false
pretenses, but he said Zephaniah was the mastermind.

“So Zephi’s texting these guys, pretending that her name is
Julie, the 14-year-old that’s gonna have sex,” Finn said. “So,
these guys think they’re gonna bring weed and coke and Xanax and
have a big old party and these guys are gonna have sex with
underage girls.”

“Philip Baldenegro and another adult accomplice savagely beat
these two men,” Moore said. “They pistol-whipped them. They then
followed them out to the parking lot and Mr. Baldenegro ended up
murdering one of the pedophiles that were there to purchase this
young child.”

The 24-year-old shooting victim, dead on the scene. The second
man who showed up suffered minor injuries.

Advocates for Zephaniah are keeping many details of what
happened that night close to the chest but said that any
involvement on her end was forced. They also added that because
she is a child, it was legally impossible for her to make those
decisions on her own.

“She didn’t know she had a voice, she didn’t,” her mom Crystal
said. “I don’t know the horrors and the details, but those were
grown men. Grown men who looked at my child and were gonna abuse
her, rape her, do whatever they did to her.”

Case captures celebrity attention
The case garnered worldwide attention.

Zephaniah drew celebrity support from the likes of Kim
Kardashian West and Selena Gomez.

Jamie Lee Curtis even took out a full-page ad in The Dallas
Morning News backing the young girl.

A GoFundMe page to raise defense funds for the Trevinos has
raised just over $100,000 and a petition seeking justice is
closing in on 400,000 signatures.

“Jamie Lee Curtis has got a platform, Kim Kardashian has got a
platform and I think they mean well. I think that they have been
used, I think they’ve been misguided, I think they’ve been
deceived,” Finn said.

Markie Martin: David Finn has also said this idea of Zephaniah
calling herself a sex trafficking victim is to garner sympathy.
Is there any truth to that from your team?
Moore: David Finn is a monster. His comments that she’s trying
to garner sympathy, completely disgusting.
Crystal: Do you know how hard it is for any victim of any
situation to speak up? And not be heard? It’s hard. It’s very
hard. So, how can you say that?

Markie Martin: And, so you are sure beyond a reasonable doubt
that this accusation coming from her family and her team is
false?
Finn: Absolutely.

What’s next in the case
Both teens are currently out on bond.

Crystal said her daughter — the one who was on the school
softball and volleyball teams, an honors student who sang in the
church choir on Sundays — now is spending what could be her
final days at home.
In an ankle monitor, focusing on online school and family. She
said if Zephaniah is found guilty, life as she knew it is gone.

“She doesn’t have a driver’s license, she didn’t get to work her
first job, she hasn’t graduated, she hasn’t crossed a stage, she
won’t get to go to prom. These are all life moments we all got
to take a part of. She won’t get that, she won’t.”

CRYSTAL TREVINO
And as for Baldenegro, his attorney left NewsNation with this:

“Did my guy make a terrible mistake? Yeah. Are we gonna plead
guilty to armed robbery? You betcha we are. Cause he’s guilty of
armed robbery and he’s gonna pay a price for that. Did he
traffic that girl? No way in hell.”

DAVID FINN
Next week, a monumental step in this case. On Monday, Zephaniah
will have her adult certification hearing, where the state will
decide whether or not to try her as an adult.

NewsNation reached out to the Dallas District Attorney, who
declined to comment.

If she is tried as an adult, she faces life in prison. She turns
18 in February.

https://wreg.com/news/2-teens-facing-capital-murder-charges- garner-attention-of-hollywood/

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