Okay, Slate and the blogperson made some good points. First of all, it is a titillating and pururient article all the way through. Secondly, the bit about a guy reading the Bible before and after having sex with a young girl also reads too typical of all-religious-people-are-hypocrites stereotype; professing Christians are always sex-hungry hypocrites.
I agree they did. Landsman is described as a novelist and screenwriter as well as a reporter....sounds like he's helping his story along, so to say.
But here's a fact NOT in dispute. 100s of girls in the Juarez area have been abducted in the last few years. Often their bodies are found months later, but only recently killed. Often the dead girls are found wearing the clothes of other disappeared girls, who were abducted long after them.
Something very sick and evil is happening to young girls along the border, and that's why I don't rule out the thrust of Lansdsman's article.