Bosco Enriquez snitched on Miami's Latin gangs; then cops abandoned him to rape and deportation
It was 4 a.m. when two cops galloped up the stairs of the quiet Kendall home, turned left, and burst into the boys' room. One was a monster, a tall blond officer in cargo jeans, a T-shirt, and boots. His partner was a smaller African-American. Enriquez, a gawky 15-year-old, was dead asleep. So was his 13-year-old brother, Oscar. The boys immediately heard their mom, Maria, sobbing. They sat up.
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Bosco says now, over the phone from Nicaragua. "I decided to change my life. But they betrayed me. They all betrayed me.
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Bosco Enriquez is among the most horrendous victims of the hysteria of that time. In the months after the 1996 raid on his family's Kendall home, he wore a wire and helped bring down some of the International Posse's most despicable leaders on drug charges. In exchange, there were no rewards or thank-yous. Rather, his ponytailed police handler — a maverick gang-detail veteran named Gadyaces Serralta — would release Bosco's name in court documents. The boy would be beaten almost to death with a baseball bat during a gang fight and his house shot up by angry gang members. Later, after kicking a drug habit he claims resulted from police carelessness, he was raped in federal custody and then exiled from his home in the United States to Nicaragua, a country he had barely known as an infant.
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I have spent the past two months combing through mountains of dusty court files that document Enriquez's case, as well as the personnel file of Serralta, the officer who recruited the boy. The result is an outrage. Local educators and police, as well as federal immigration authorities, failed this kid. Cops both in Miami and across the nation need more oversight when they use children to snitch. The current system stinks.
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http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2012-03-01/news/bosco-henriquez-was-beaten-and-raped-after-helping-miami-cops-bust-latin-gangs/
This set my hair on fire.
No justice! No honor! Just a bunch of despicable people throwing a kid to the wolves, literally.
He could hardly have been treated any worse in prison.
A LOT of people owe him for things that can't be repaid. I don't know what can be done, but this country should and can do something for him.
If anybody connected to the PTB told him the sky was black at midnight, he better check.
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