- Kitiara wrote:
- Don't forget about the cartels.
For sure. I was lumping them in with 'gangs', but agreed they're far worse.
"The case of Edgar Jimenez Lugo, or “El Ponchis,” is one of the more disturbing. At 15, he was convicted of committing multiple murders for the Beltran Leyva Cartel, which he began at age 11"
http://www.wired.com/2013/03/mexico-child-soldiers/
Up to 35,000 work for ............
"The recruitment age into organized criminal organizations a decade ago was generally found to be anywhere between 20 and 35 years. Now, boys aged 12 to 15 years old are routinely entering these same organizations. "
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/11/up-to-35-thousand-children-work-for.html
articles as far as the eye can see....