Gov. Greg Abbott signs ‘Athena Alert' bill into law, effective immediately

. Athena's mother, Maitlyn Gandy had asked for an AMBER Alert to be issued when she found out her daughter was missing but the alert wasn't able to be sent until hours later.

"Unfortunately, I kept getting met with the same response that she, in her case, did not meet the criteria for an AMBER Alert to be issued,” Gandy testified before a committee in April. “I don’t want someone to feel how I feel. I don’t want a mother to have to carry home an urn with her children’s ashes. I don’t want to watch another grandparent mourn the way my dad did.”

An AMBER Alert was issued for Athena about 24 hours after she disappeared, but investigators later determined her time of death occurred before the alert had been issued.

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