Child organ trafficking ring busted by Mexican police

[Judi Lynn]

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]

1. that is horrifying, disgusting, monstrous. Now will I be able to sleep?

[hollysmom]

18. you are correct. I yell at friends all the time for spreading crap. mea culpa.

[Ellipsis]

2. Jeeee-suus.

Draw and quarter them... seriously.

[Old Codger]

3. More proof

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]

4. Omg. Words fail. n/t

[yourout]

5. I would have no problem having Seal Team 6 pay them a visit.

[AtheistCrusader]

6. Well... Shit.

Someone finally makes a good case for the death penalty that I would seriously have to entertain after conviction.

[delrem]

7. How was the market nurtured. Who was the final dealer, the final buyer? ?

[PeoViejo]

13. Probably paid for by some rich Oligarch

that wants to live forever.

I can think of one person in particular....

[RKP5637]

8. OMG, just OMG. Inhuman! n/t

[Kali]

9. isn't this a common boogeyman accusation in Mexico?

is there any real evidence?


this is like accusing enemies of cannibalism and other outrageous taboo atrocities.

[pnwmom]

11. It is too early to say because they are in the process of investigating.

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]

10. This seems like a horror flick. Or something I wish I could Snope. n/t

[hopemountain]

12. horror! recently heard of

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]

15. Not the same Knights Templar, fyi. nt

[hopemountain]

20. exactly.

the audacity to use the name. some may wonder exactly why they would choose this moniker.

[Scuba]

14. Apparently the NSA eavesdropping program missed this.

[DesertDiamond]

16. CAN HUMANITY POSSIBLY SINK ANY LOWER?? Correction. These are NOT real human beings...

They're not animals either. They're so owned by their darkness that they ARE the darkness.

[hopemountain]

21. i suspect brujeria of the darkness nt

[Zorra]

19. I don't think I am capable of forgiving someone who does that.

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.