In Mexico children never are prosecuted as adults regardless of the barbarity of the crime, and accordingly, the drug cartels increasingly are exploiting them for their bloody work as reported by Lauren Villagran for The Dallas Morning News: "Mexico's judicial system generally goes easy on youths -- one of the reasons cartels are finding teenagers useful as killers-for-hire -- and there is no process under which youths, even when they commit a heinous crime, can be tried as adults."
