{"id":240765,"date":"2025-09-20T06:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240765\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T06:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:06:17","slug":"san-antonio-mothers-to-march-for-justice-seeking-accountability-in-their-childrens-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240765\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio mothers to march for justice, seeking accountability in their children\u2019s cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 Five years have passed, but Lydia Leos says July 30, 2020 feels like just yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">That day is when her son <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2020\/07\/29\/bexar-county-jail-inmate-hospitalized-after-ingesting-drugs-sheriffs-office-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2020\/07\/29\/bexar-county-jail-inmate-hospitalized-after-ingesting-drugs-sheriffs-office-says\/\">Julian Dena<\/a> died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThis is the journey that no parent or sibling wants to be walking, but we are walking it,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">Her family decided to take him off life support because just days before, he overdosed on meth at the Bexar County jail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cJulian\u2019s death was a death that came upon a choice he made,\u201d Leos said. \u201cWhen I fight Julian\u2019s death, I\u2019m fighting changes in the jail system because he died in a place that should have been ready for what happened to Julian.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">That\u2019s why she\u2019s working with other moms like Guadalupe Castro. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s been very hard these past five years,\u201d Castro said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">Castro also lost her son in 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2020\/08\/26\/mother-wants-answers-after-son-was-killed-while-in-a-car-with-friends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2020\/08\/26\/mother-wants-answers-after-son-was-killed-while-in-a-car-with-friends\/\">Izaiah Riojas<\/a> died after being shot and killed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWhat helps me grieve and remember him is helping other mothers out there,\u201d Castro said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Leos and Castro are two of the three founding moms of San Antonio Grieving Mothers Fight for Justice. Magdalena Martinez, the mother of Juan Mendoza, is the third. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On Saturday, their group is leading a march in downtown San Antonio. Starting at 9 a.m., they\u2019ll meet in front of the San Fernando Cathedral. At 10 a.m., they\u2019ll start walking to Public Safety Headquarters, where they\u2019ll hold a rally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">They\u2019re calling on the San Antonio Police Department, the Bexar County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Bexar County District Attorney\u2019s Office for accountability in their cases. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cAll we want are answers and justice,\u201d Castro said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>Related coverage on KSAT.com:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Five years have passed, but Lydia Leos says July 30, 2020 feels like just yesterday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":240766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7288,4219,4222,1809,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-240765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bexar-county","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-gun-violence","12":"tag-protest","13":"tag-san-antonio","14":"tag-sanantonio","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115235126346695929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}