Friday, May 22, 2015

This is what children learn from drug wars.

Relatives of Cristopher Raymundo Marquez Mora during his funeral service in Chihuahua on May 17, 2015 (AFP Photo/Daniel Acosta) 

May 19, 2015

"They were playing, (click here) they tied him up and they put a stick on his neck that semi-asphyxiated him," the statement said.

"When the boy fell to the ground, they hurled rocks at him, they stuck a knife in his back and once dead, they dragged him where they deposited the body, in a shallow dig," it said.

"They covered the body with dirt and put plants and a dead animal on the surface" in a bid to hide him, the statement said.

The two 15-year-old boys could be jailed if found guilty but the other three other minors face "other types of sanctions," prosecutors said.

The murder took place in a state that has endured some of the worst bloodshed in Mexico's drug war, with thousands of people killed in turf wars between cartels....