Graciela Sanchez, director of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center and a longtime ally of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, said she counts herself as one of the strongest supporters of the San Antonio Four.
The first cut of a documentary film being made about their case premiered at the center.
"For those of us who could read between the lines, we were seeing that their targeting was because they were possibly lesbian," Sanchez said.
She said even now, 15 years after their convictions, "Homophobia and transphobia still is deep, deep, deep in our culture."
Sanchez said the community needs to open its minds and hearts to on-going dialogue about the issue.
The four women were convicted in 1998 for the alleged sexual assault of two little girls related to Elizabeth Ramirez, who received the longest sentence of 37 years.
However, Cliff Herberg, a spokesman for the Bexar County District Attorney's Office, confirms one of the alleged victims has recanted her story; the other has not, but she does not want to testify.
"She does not wish to go through the ordeal of another trial. She is trying to put it behind her," Herberg said. "She still has emotional issues from the alleged events."
Herberg said now a young woman, she does not want to re-open old wounds.
Without the alleged victims' testimony and with the science that helped convict the women no longer valid, Herberg said DA Susan Reed will not re-try the case.
Michael Ware, the attorney for the San Antonio Four, said the remaining three who were released from the Bexar County Jail Monday night spent private time with families Tuesday, ahead of a planned news conference on Wednesday morning.
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