Horror stories from our neighbor to the south just keep on piling up.
GIRL, 8, COMMITS SUICIDE AFTER REUNION WITH PARENTS IN AMERICA IS STOPPED BY BORDER GUARDS IN MEXICO WHO CAUGHT HER BEING SMUGGLED
Associated Press
March 18, 2014
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission says it has opened an investigation into the death of an 8-year-old girl who authorities say committed suicide at a shelter in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.
The commission says the girl was traveling with a migrant smuggler who planned to take her to her parents in the United States when federal authorities arrested the smuggler.
Federal officials turned the girl over to Chihuahua state authorities who placed her at a private shelter instead of one run by the state's child protective services.
State prosecutors say the girl hanged herself last week inside a bathroom at "La Esperanza" shelter and that there was no foul play.
The commission said in a Monday statement that authorities are still trying to locate the girl's family.
This sad news comes as 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 on 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.
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