• Mexico jails US-born teenager for drug murders
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[QUOTE=BBC][B]A Mexican judge has sentenced a US-born teenager to three years in prison for four murders, which he said he carried out on the orders of a drug gang.[/B]Edgar Jimenez Lugo, 14 at the time of the killings, said he was under the influence of drugs and threatened by gang leaders, according to officials. The sentence was the maximum allowed for a juvenile in the state of Morelos, where he was tried. Jimenez was born in California, but has spent most of his life in Mexico. The juvenile court in Morelos found the teenager guilty of killing four people, whose mutilated bodies were founding hanging from a bridge in Cuernavaca in 2010. A court spokesman said Jimenez's three-year sentence was effective from 2 January 2010. He will be kept in a juvenile facility. Jimenez, nicknamed El Ponchis, was arrested by the Mexican army last December. He was trying to catch a plane from Cuernavaca with two of his sisters to get back to San Diego, where his Mexican mother lives. [B]Intimidation[/B]Officials say the boy confessed to working for the South Pacific drug cartel in Morelos state. He told them he had been abducted and given drugs, and then ordered to carry out the killings. At the time of his arrest, the Reforma newspaper quoted Edgar Jimenez as saying: "I felt bad doing it. I was forced to do it. They said they would kill me if I didn't do it. "I only beheaded them, but never hung [bodies] from bridges, never." Hanging bodies from bridges at busy intersections is a practice among Mexican cartels as a way to intimidate rivals. Some 40,000 people have died in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon began deploying troops to fight the cartels in late 2006.[/QUOTE] Source: [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14305109[/URL] Damn, Mexico is fucked up.
I'm not surprised. The power and violent natures of the drug cartels in Mexico usually leads to killings like these.
Three years for 4 murders? Even if he was forced that's still ridiculous.
[QUOTE=d3450;31387996]Three years for 4 murders? Even if he was forced that's still ridiculous.[/QUOTE]He's 15, giving him a "full" sentence would probably result in him spending more of his life in prison than out of it.
[QUOTE=d3450;31387996]Three years for 4 murders? Even if he was forced that's still ridiculous.[/QUOTE] I don't think Mexican prisons are as comfortable as American prisons, they probably didn't want to destroy the kid if he was forced.
Uh didn't the US put some Mexican guy in prison for murder and everybody moaned about his rights were violated?
3 years in prison at the age of 14 and i wonder which or what cell block he's gonna be in.. for those 3 years. [editline]29th July 2011[/editline] he's lucky as hell though.. if he was older, he'd go down for good
He's 14 and he fucking beheaded them. Sucks for those who got killed, their lives are worth less then 1 year of this kid's life apparently.
woo go drug war!
Would really suck to be that kid if the cartels really did force him to do all of this. I don't know what I would do if I was in that situation, knowing they'd probably kill me if I didn't do it. Now he has to spend time in a Mexican prison.
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;31394633]Uh didn't the US put some Mexican guy in prison for murder and everybody moaned about his rights were violated?[/QUOTE]Actually it was some Mexican guy getting the death penalty to avoid having him sent back to Mexico.
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;31394633]Uh didn't the US put some Mexican guy in prison for murder and everybody moaned about his rights were violated?[/QUOTE] Lol the people who compained didn't know that people who enter illeagally don't have any rights?
I would say mexican prisons are some of the worst prisons, my mothers uncle was serving life for killing someone and after 11 years he was stabbed to death. Also the living conditions are just nasty.
[QUOTE=lolo;31402998]Lol the people who compained didn't know that people who enter illeagally don't have any rights?[/QUOTE] I don't know the circumstances regarding that case, and I'm sure that the guy deserved prison if it was murder, but illegal immigrants actually do have some rights, mostly internationally recognized ones.
[QUOTE='[Seed Eater];31403664']I don't know the circumstances regarding that case, and I'm sure that the guy deserved prison if it was murder, but [b]illegal immigrants actually do have some rights[/b], mostly internationally recognized ones.[/QUOTE] I'm sorry what? They ILLEGALLY go into a country and they should have federal rights within that country?
The fuck? He killed them and beheaded them then the fucking people who drugged him hung the bodies at busy intersections? [IMG]http://www.adiumxtras.com/images/thumbs/something_awful__2_6634_2842_thumb.gif[/IMG] It doesn't say why they drugged him in the first place...
[QUOTE=XZXk;31407091]It doesn't say why they drugged him in the first place...[/QUOTE] Reminds me of the film where an African 10-or-so years old was injected with heroin by some adult thug and he told him it made him bullet proof. But yeah, something like that.
[QUOTE=Trooper0315;31403713]I'm sorry what? They ILLEGALLY go into a country and they should have federal rights within that country?[/QUOTE] Well yes, they do have certain rights. Not necessarily liberties, but they have protections. Don't know which under our federal government, myself though.
Mexico is a fucking horrible place. Only been there once at some resort place in Cancun. If you manage to get out of the resort/compound the streets smell like ass and kids are begging for you to take them home. Dont forget the inconspicuous mercs :v:
[QUOTE=Trooper0315;31403713]I'm sorry what? They ILLEGALLY go into a country and they should have federal rights within that country?[/QUOTE] Yes. Breaking a law doesn't make you not a human anymore.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;31409765]well duh, killing a small defenseless animal will make you subject to the death penalty under nation fp conditions[/QUOTE] they just don't know that the same defenseless animals often go through some horrible death like getting eaten alive. teeth sunk on your flank, and you try to struggle with your little calves like branches. how cute.
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