Posted on 11/13/2010 11:27:58 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
THE Mexican Army is hunting a 12-year-old assassin who is allegedly employed by a drug cartel to torture and murder its enemies.
Known simply as El Ponchis - which means "The Cloak" - the young boy has been accused of helping wage a turf war in the central Morelos state.
Reports said he was paid $US3000 per murder and that he tortured his victims before killing them. He often cuts his victim's throat, leaving the head attached by just a thread.
Videos of El Ponchis attacking one enemy with a stick and cutting the throat of another have appeared online, as have photos of him posing with various weapons and standing by a dead body.
The boy allegedly works for the little-known South Pacific cartel, which has allied itself with the brutal Los Zetas - former government paramilitaries who have gone rogue - to battle the major La Familia cartel for control of southwest Mexico.
Based just outside the city of Cuernavaca, El Ponchis was said to work with a group of girls, including his sisters, who are referred to as Las Chavelas and are often responsible for disposing of the bodies.
The gang was reportedly led by a man named Julio Jesus Radilla or Padilla and was mainly made up of young people aged 12 to 23, who have posed for pictures with weapons and drugs online.
El Ponchis is known as the youngest member - and reputedly the most bloodthirsty.
Pedro Luis Benitez, attorney general of Morelos state, told a local radio station that young people were particularly easy to influence, with gang bosses making murder seem like a game to them.
"They're persuaded to carry out terrible acts, they don't realize what they are doing," he said.
There has been a significant jump in the number of young people working for drug cartels this year, according to Mexican authorities.
Horrifying. This confluence of jihadi and Mexican drug cartel tactics is disconcerting, to say the least. I normally would not be in favor of executing a 12-year-old, even for a murder, but I think I could make an exception in this case. He is a lost soul.
Celebrate diversity.
Celebrate diversity.
Disgusting. And when they catch him (and they will) the bleeding hearts of ten countries will come forward and argue on his behalf that he should be saved because “he’s just a child”.
He often cuts his victim’s throat, leaving the head attached by just a thread.
Kill the little bastard with extreme prejudice.
I don’t know if there’s ever been a time when the country across our southern border has not been a malignancy.
No, kids that age know what they are doing. They don’t think it can happen to them. They don’t sit around and think about dying, but they know exactly what they are doing. You don’t have to teach kids how to be evil. That comes naturally from inside ourselves. You have to teach people to be nice. What’s easier (comes more naturally), being mean or being nice?
The more I read about the Cartels and their evil...the more I believe they are Influenced or Trained by Muzzie Terrrorist types. Using Children..Beheading People......
Ok, time out! Can anyone tell me just how the hell a 12 year=old kid gets the jump on adults? We’re talking about a veritable infant here, a child fer cryin’ out loud!
I suspect it's because adults are not normally wary of children. Terrorists have been known to utilize women for the same reason.
C’mon man, this is a kid we’re talking about. How tall and just how much does this kid weigh? What is he “The Hulk JR’’?
Doesn’t matter how big or tall they are if they have a gun...
Yeah, but this is a kid!! Do you get me? C’mon. How many times can a kid get the jump on an adult?
I know it takes more muscles to frown than smile...
We tend to love first, hate second...
who’s on third...BAM!
First, as someone else said, firearms make great equalizers. That's the reason lots of the law-abiding here in the US carry them.
Second, didn't the article say that his sisters also worked with him? If he does look like a kid, how suspicious would most people be of a young kid and a (perhaps provocatively dressed) young girl? You don't have to be tall to cut someone's throat if they are kneeling and you have a pretty sharp instrument.
Finally, in my experience Hispanic boys tend to mature faster than boys named, say, Smith or Jones. I once knew a 12-year-old with a full mustache and the muscular development of an adult. He is American; his grandparents had come from Mexico.
While the evil of turning a 12 year old into a killer is horrifying, I don't have a lot of trouble buying the story. I do believe he knows what he is doing, and I don't expect the story to end well, for him. Sooner or later someone smarter and with better instincts will get the drop on him and will unhesitatingly take him out.
Well, they are harder to see when they are small, I suppose...
How many times can a kid get the jump on an adult?
Hi honey!!! Care to show grandma that chain saw you got there?
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