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Mexico kidnappers kill child with acid injection
2008-11-03
Kidnappers in Mexico City killed a five-year-old child by acid injection after discovering they were sought by police, local prosecutors say.

Four suspected kidnappers, including a woman and a 17-year-old boy who knew the victim's family, initially sought a $34,000 ransom after kidnapping the child on October 26, the capital's prosecutor's office said.

"When they found out they were sought by police, they decided to take the victim to a hill... where they killed and buried him," a statement said.

The child was killed with an injection of acid, it added.

The suspects were detained at the weekend after a tipoff from a taxi driver who had picked up one of them with the child and later alerted police after seeing a news report on his disappearance.

Official figures show there were 651 kidnappings in Mexico in the first nine months of the year, although experts say the figure could be two or three times higher because many cases go unreported.
Posted by:Oztralian

#2  Mexico doesn't allow the death penalty. Is there anyone more worthy of it?
Posted by: Frank G   2008-11-03 21:59  

#1  That's not cool. Not at all.
I wonder how many of these animals are El Salvadorans or Colombians.
Posted by: bgijim-ky   2008-11-03 16:57  

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