Child organ trafficking ring busted by Mexican police
Source: Associated Press
Child organ trafficking ring busted by Mexican police
Alleged member of the Knights Templar drug cartel kidnapped children to harvest their organs
The Associated Press Posted: Mar 17, 2014 9:38 PM ET| Last Updated: Mar 17, 2014 9:38 PM ET
Police in Mexico's western state of Michoacan detained an alleged member of the Knights Templar cartel who is suspected of kidnapping children to harvest their organs, an official said Monday.
Michoacan state Public Safety Secretary Carlos Castellanos Becerra alleged that Manuel Plancarte Gaspar was part of the cartel's organ-trafficking ring. The ring would kidnap children and take them to rented homes with medical equipment where their organs were removed, Castellanos Becerra charged.
"We have several statements in open investigations that point to a network of several suspects who would identify people with certain characteristics, especially children, and kidnap them," he said.
Castellanos Becerra said the cases go back several years, but he said he couldn't give any specific details or discuss evidence because the investigation is still open.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/child-organ-trafficking-ring-busted-by-mexican-police-1.2576492?cmp=rss
hollysmom
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hollysmom
(5,946 posts)Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)Draw and quarter them... seriously.
Old Codger
(4,205 posts)Even though we don't really need more proof.. There are truly evil people in this world that will do anything at all at any time to anyone...for money..or some equivalence..
TDale313
(7,820 posts)yourout
(7,531 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Someone finally makes a good case for the death penalty that I would seriously have to entertain after conviction.
delrem
(9,688 posts)PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)that wants to live forever.
I can think of one person in particular....
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)Kali
(55,014 posts)is there any real evidence?
this is like accusing enemies of cannibalism and other outrageous taboo atrocities.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)But sometimes the common boogeyman turns out to have an actual foundation. We just can't know yet.
From the OP:
Hours before the announcement, a leader of one of the local vigilante groups that sprang up last year in Michoacan to challenge the cartel's control told a radio station that people in the area knew the Knights Templar gang was involved in organ trafficking because several children had been rescued in his town while being transported in a refrigerated container inside a van.
"They were inside a refrigerated box, tightly wrapped in blankets," Dr. Jose Manuel Mireles, leader of the civilian "self-defense" group in Tepalcatepec, said in a morning interview with MVS radio.
Mireles said the van carrying the children was headed to the port city of Lazaro Cardenas and ended up in Tepalcatepec after making a wrong turn.
"They were all children from the same Mexico City school," he said.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)hopemountain
(3,919 posts)this cartel in another news cast up here in oregon regarding a drug mule bust. thought i had mis-heard the reference to knights templar.
Doremus
(7,261 posts)hopemountain
(3,919 posts)the audacity to use the name. some may wonder exactly why they would choose this moniker.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)DesertDiamond
(1,616 posts)They're not animals either. They're so owned by their darkness that they ARE the darkness.
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)I have to go out for a walk in the sun right now and see if I can convince myself that I don't belong to the same species of predator that does things like that.