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QUITO, Ecuador (CN) - In November, Juana Francis Bone's 14-year-old niece went to the corner store for a minute and never came back.
When her family filed a police report, they were told each officer had some 60 missing person cases on their shoulders. Her niece would be just one more.
Francis is a law student and advocate for Black women's rights in the organization Mujeres de Asfalto. She lives