Kidnappers kill Mexican child with acid injection

[cali]

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press Writer

Monday, November 3, 2008


(11-03) 17:31 PST MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) --

Kidnappers grabbed a 5-year-old boy from a gritty Mexico City street market, then killed him by injecting acid into his heart — a new low even for Mexico's brutal kidnapping gangs.

The boy, Javier Morena, was the oldest son of a poor family that sold fruit at a market in the tough neighborhood of Iztapalapa, proof that the plague of kidnappings for ransom afflicts the working class as well as the wealthy.

Javier disappeared while playing at the market on Sunday, Oct. 26, Mexico City authorities said on Monday. The boy's family spent days looking for him, finally persuading a local television station to post his picture on the news three days later.

A taxi driver recognized the boy, and went to the market to find the family. He told them that he had given the boy and a teenager a ride from the market to nearby Mexico state, and the teenager had told him the boy was crying because his younger brother had been stolen.

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ugh. human beings make me sick.

[midnight]

1. Cali this is so awful..... I would not refer to these creatures

as human beings.

[Xenotime]

2. I hope there is something we can do

to change this. Something to ease all the suffereing there.

[BoneDaddy]

3. That is why I am for the death penalty in cases such as these

Of course a moratorium needs to be placed on state sanctioned murder because of the unfairness of how it has been carried out with regards to people of color and the poor, but in situations like these, I am all for it.

[tuckessee]

4. You don't even have a suspect in custody......

....but still you're all fired up to kill him.

Of course, there's not a snowball's chance in hell that the police & prosecutors might railroad (either through willful misconduct or well-intentioned overeagerness) an innocent party in such a high profile, emotionally charged case.

That could never happen in Mexico let alone the great US of A.

[a la izquierda]

5. They actually DO have a suspect in custody...

a 17 year old friend of the family.

I live in Guadalajara, MX and this story is all over the news today. It's a horror show for this poor family.
This comes a day after 11 people were found shot to death outside of Mexico City.

[BoneDaddy]

6. Then you didn't read my post

clearly. If there is any doubt about the suspect's innocence then the DP should never be in place. I happen to believe that in clear cut cases where you have a confession, and there is overwhelming proof, animals such as the perp in this situation should be killed.

[jeepnstein]

7. No death penalty in Mexico...

Not that it would matter.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. awful story.

[applegrove]

9. Kidnappings are what happens when there is huge inequality in a society. Thank god Obama

will win and put America back on track to being a middle class society.