Posted on 12/05/2010 5:13:38 PM PST by mandaladon
Mexico City (CNN) -- A 14-year-old accused of ruthless killings on behalf of a Mexican drug cartel boss faced a battery of questions from reporters after authorities detained him. And he answered, point-blank, as camera flash bulbs flickered.
"I slit their throats," he said, describing what he said was the killing of four people.
The teen told reporters after his capture Thursday night that he was an orphan who joined the Pacifico Sur drug cartel when he was 12. He said Julio "El Negro" Padilla, one of the group's alleged leaders, threatened him.
"I either work or he'll kill me," the 14-year-old said.
Analysts say the case offers a glimpse into Mexican drug gangs, which are increasingly recruiting youth to help with their turf battles.
Blog: Accused teen hit man in Mexico admits to slayings
"This won't be the last time we hear stories of young children picking up arms and killing people because it pays, and because they think it's cool," said Sylvia Longmire, a former U.S. Air Force officer and senior intelligence analyst specializing in Latin America and Mexico's drug war.
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This is a sad, sad story.
“I slit their throats,” he said,”
Doing the work Americans won’t do. Oh he is an “american” by way of illegal immigration. *******g illegal aliens.
Have been grateful not to see this boy called a 'teenager'. But 'teen' all too close. Of course, it is CNN. . .Hope decent reporting will not go there. ( Another debasement of our language is the too-often heard 'misspeak', when 'Media' references the worst of perps Humanity can muster, as 'the Gentleman'. (After raping, murdering; dismembering some poor victim. . .the 'Gentleman' was taken into custody.)
Anyway, fourteen year old - works.
Thanks to the weakest American Gov ever i.e. Obama, Inc.; a terrorist and cartel third-world is permeating our borders; pushing themselves onto our landscape; into our Country; impacting our future.
That said; ANYone who does illegal drugs - no matter where it is grown/produced/manufactured; and no exceptions for why. . .how - is a link in this morbid, ever threatening. . .evil degradation, of a karmic chain.
Illegal drugs could be made to vanish at the stroke of a pen ... legalizing them. And then this Gentleman would be out of a job, as would his employer.
I was never this child’s age. He is a lost soul. I am praying for him and for the evil ones who corrupted him to be avenged by God’s Angels.
Then slit his.
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