There are so many killer children working for the Mexican drug cartels that perhaps kiddy network Nickleodeon should launch a comedy series titled I Was A Teenage Hitman or something (hey, it's already making the mob movie Nicky Deuce).
The tortured and slain body of a 13-year-old boy who last month confessed to his involvement with ten murders for Los Zetas was found in the Central Mexican state of Zacatecas as reported by Rafael Romo for CNN:
After his February arrest, the Federal Police released the boy into the
custody of the Mexican Attorney General's Office, which later set him
free in compliance with the law. The Mexican constitution prohibits the
incarceration of anybody under the age of 14. The constitutional ban
also applies to correctional facilities.
Apparently the boy's narco bosses weren't too happy with his confession.
The drug cartels increasingly are using juvie killers for their dirty work on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border.
In December 2010 Mexican authorities arrested Edgar Jimenez a/k/a El Ponchis or The Cloak, an American-born
14-year-old boy who admitted to beheading at least four people on behalf
of the South Pacific Cartel, which spotlighted the use of child narcos in the drug trade as reported by Ioan Grillo for Time magazine:
Youth prisons in Mexico are now full of minors who have been arrested
for crimes linked to the drug war. Most of the inmates had been
convicted of drug-related murders, kidnapping and drug trafficking.
Oswaldo Hogaz, a prison official in Juarez, Mexico, states: "These kids
are cheap, bloodthirsty, and they know the government can't punish them
much."
In 2009 police in Laredo, TX
reported that Los Zetas signed up U.S. teenagers as young as thirteen years old
to carry out enforcement hits on the north side of the border as then reported by Ed Lavandera for CNN.
Two such teens -- Rosalio Reta and Gabriel Cardona -- now are serving
lengthy prison sentences for their roles in several murders, and Reta
admitted that he made his first kill at 13: "I thought I was Superman.
I loved doing it, killing that first person."
And it's not just boys who have a taste for blood.
Last month two teen girls -- one 13, the other 15 -- confessed to gunning down a man in Guatemala City as reported by the Deccan Herald: "Criminal organizations are hiring and training minors as contract
killers to exploit provisions in Guatemalan law that exempt minors from
prosecution for such crimes, Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez said."
Of course, no doubt degenerate Americans won't let a few lost childhoods get in the way of their nasty little drug habits.
