Posted on 04/29/2010 12:40:55 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Nearly three years later, this city on Tuesday began to relive one of the most notorious crimes in its recent history, as the first of six defendants went on trial in the execution-style murders of three students in a schoolyard on a summer night. --snip-- The murders brought the first reports to many people here of MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, the violent street gang that the authorities say Mr. Godinez, a native of Nicaragua, belonged to.
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The survivor was sexually assaulted and the murderous scum attacked her with his machete in an attempt to decapitate her.
God bless this young woman.
I have a friend in So Calif who told me 3 days ago that she had never heard of MS-13. She has lived there her entire life.
I was stunned. She considers herself pretty savvy about politics, etc.
She’s intentionally sticking her head in the sand. You can’t live there and not know.
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