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Judi Lynn

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Fri Dec 24, 2021, 01:55 AM Dec 2021

Tijuana, Baja California: Young Male Has Fingers Removed For Refusing To Sell Narcotics


By Sol Prendido 12/19/2021 09:29:00 PM

This is the story of a 16-year-old young man who claims that his fingers were cut off for refusing to sell drugs in Acapulco. His father took his entire family out of the port as best he could to save their lives.

Ciro Gómez Leyva: The current violence doesn’t just affect Central American immigrants. It also happens with Mexicans, those who want to leave the country because of the violence. Our reporter Humberto Padgett is in Tijuana and he found this young boy.

Humberto Padgett: This is the sentence in Mexico in the year 2021 for a 16-year-old boy who resisted the recruitment of a criminal organization in Acapulco.

So, then they wanted you to sell drugs?

Young male: Yes. I told my dad and we moved. I was at my cousins sweet 15 party and was already heading home in a taxi. When another taxi approached and that was where I was abducted. They placed a gun on me because I didn't want to get in the car. And they took me to Avenida Gran Vía Coloso to assault me. They lowered me from the vehicle to cut off my fingers. It was a cut with a machete. They put a board and a machete on me.

More:
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2021/12/tijuana-baja-california-young-male-has.html
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Tijuana, Baja California: Young Male Has Fingers Removed For Refusing To Sell Narcotics (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2021 OP
LEGALIZE ALL DRUGS DAMNIT.. secondwind Dec 2021 #1
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