Police say Mara Salvatrucha gang sacrificing underage girls in ‘Satanic rituals’

MARCH 10, 2017 10:23am

Mara Salvatrucha - One of the World's most vicious gangs

Marnie O’Neill

news.com.au

A NOTORIOUS street gang dubbed “world’s most feared” is allegedly sacrificing underage girls in “Satanic rituals”, US police say.

More than a dozen members of the LA-based, Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, have been charged in connection with at least eight murders, many involving high school students, across the US since last month.

While MS-13 has long been associated with devil worship and uses plenty of Satanic symbolism, including its trademark “devil’s horns” hand signal, it is the first time evidence of members’ alleged participation in Satanic murders has been presented in the US.

In recent days, horror details of MS-13 crimes have been revealed in police documents tendered in two separate court cases underway in New York and Texas.

Two El Salvadoran illegal immigrants, Miguel Alvarez-Flores, 22, and Diego Hernandez-Rivera, 18, have been indicted in the alleged murder of a 15-year-old girl as part of a Satanic ritual as well as the kidnap, torture and rape of two other teens.

Miguel Alvarez-Flores, 22, and Diego Hernandez-Rivera, 18, have been charged with murdering 15-year-old Genesis Cornejo in a 'satanic ritual'.Source:Supplied

Murder victim Genesis Cornejo, 15, who was killed in an alleged satanic ritual by MS-13 membersSource:Facebook

A 14-year-old girl who was allegedly held hostage in a Houston apartment by purported MS-13 leader Alvarez-Flores, his co-accused Hernandez-Rivera and four other gang members in January, is at the centre of the prosecution.

The girl told police she was plied with alcohol and drugs, sexually assaulted by a gang member called “Flaco” and held down while Alvarez-Flores tattooed an image of the Grim Reaper stretching from her knee to her foot,zaccording to court documents cited by ABC 13.

She told police that during her 18 days in captivity, she met another hostage, a young girl called “Genesis”, whom she claimed was later murdered for insulting a Satanic shrine Alvarez-Florez had set up.

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Alvarez-Flores then made a show of appeasing Satan by placing a lit cigarette on a Satanic statue at the centre of the shrine before declaring that “material” objects no longer satisfied Satan. Instead, “the Beast wants another soul”, he said, according to police documents.

The 14-year-old claimed when she woke up the following morning, Genesis had vanished.

Lifelong friends Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas, both 15 were allegedly beaten to death by MS-13 membersSource:Supplied

MS-13 gang members make their trademark ‘devil’s horns’ hand signal in jail. Picture: Jan Sochor/REXSource:Austral International Press Agency

On February 16, the shot and tortured body of female believed to be aged between 15 and 25 was found. Police struggled to identify her for almost two weeks before confirming her remains belonged to Genesis Conejo, a 15-year-old reported missing by her family, who believed she may have run off with an older man.

One night during her confinement, she observed an incident where Genesis made an outburst against a shrine dedicated to the gang members’ satanic beliefs, the prosecutor said.

In the courtroom, Hernandez-Rivera brushed his nose.

“Diabolico (Alvarez-Flores) was offended at the outburst,” the prosecutor said. He approached the statue and offered it a cigarette. Then he walked back to the other gang members.

“The beast did not want a material offering, but wanted a soul,” Alvarez-Flores said, according to the prosecutor.

When the girl next woke, Genesis was gone.

She reappeared on the morning of February 16, dead in the middle of a street near Houston’s Chinatown area — no ID, a ring of little elephants around one finger.

She had a bullet hole in her head, and another in her chest, both of which appeared to have been fired at close range, police said.

It took detectives some time to piece together what happened. But last week SWAT officers raided the apartment and arrested Alvarez-Flores and Hernandez-Rivera — both of whom allegedly admitted involvement in the girl’s death.

“Prepare yourself; it is your turn,” Alvarez-Flores told Hernandez-Rivera after he returned from the shrine, prosecutors allege. “He knew this was an order by his leader to kill” Genesis.

A group of gang members then drove off with Genesis, telling her they were going to meet a marijuana dealer. Instead, they pulled over and instructed the teen to sit on the grass on the side of the road.

Police allege Alvarez-Flores pulled out a pistol and waved it at Hernandez-Rivera, who took it and shot the girl.

A local leader of the Mara Salvatrucha gang (MS-13) in a cell at a detention centre in San Salvador, El Salvador. Picture: Jan Sochor/LatinContent/Getty ImagesSource:Supplied

In a separate case, 10 MS-13 members have been indicted over seven murders, including the slaying of two young girls, in New York’s Long Island.

Best friends Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas, 16, were beaten with baseball bats and hacked with a machete during an attack that began when gang members spotted them walking together in Brentwood.

The attack was allegedly in retaliation for derogatory comments Kayla had made about MS-13’s presence at her high school.

The accused men — all illegal immigrants from El Salvador or Honduras, and are among 13 people charged with crimes including racketeering and multiple counts of conspiracy to murder.

One of them was deported to El Salvador back in 2010 and sneaked back into the US by July 14, 2014, when he allegedly murdered Jose Lainez-Murcia, his co-worker at a landscaping company.

“The day Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas were heinously murdered, the Suffolk County Police Department made a commitment to their families and to the residents of Brentwood that justice would be served, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Tim Sini said,zFox News reported.

“Today, in collaboration with the FBI and the United States Attorney’s Office, we have delivered on that promise.”

Elmer Lopez and German Cruz and two other fugitives have been charged with the murder of Peña-Hernandez, who police allege was a MS-13 member and killed because he was suspected of violating gang rules.

A third juvenile MS-13 member has been charged with the Peña-Hernandez murder. Police say victim was killed in June 2016, but his badly decomposed remains were not recovered until October.

Police also found the bodies of 19-year-old Oscar Acosta and 15-year-old Miguel Garcia-Moran in a remote industrial area of the town.

Acosta had been missing since May, and Garcia-Moran vanished in last February. None of the suspects indictedlast week have been charged with their murders.

Police have said MS-13 is the largest gang on Long Island with Suffolk County “cliques” concentrated in the villages of Brentwood, Huntington, Copiague, Farmingdale, and Islip. The gang has been blamed for 30 other killings on Long Island since 2010.

“For far too long, MS-13 has been meting out their own version of the death penalty,” New York Attorney Robert Capers said.

Since the killings, Suffolk County police have arrested more than 125 suspected MS-13 gang members in Brentwood and elsewhere.

There are an estimated 100,000 MS-13 members worldwide, between 10,000 and 20,000 of them in the US.

The unrest caused by El Salvador's infamous rival gangs, Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street Gang. Picture: Jan Sochor/REXSource:Austral International Press Agency

Does it bother anyone that news stories such as this one serve as inspiration for the newest CI?

That is a sad story D: I thought the new CI was just a Halloween themed item...I forgot Satanism was a religion

I didn't think it was based on the MS-13. I thought it was just a Halloween CI.

What they do is really messed up and in the area I live in there's an issue with them and other international gangs since I live really close to an international boarder. Thankfully, it's less of an issue than it has been in the past but you do still see tags and hear of gang activity so they're defiantly still active here.

I honestly had never heard of them before so thank you for bringing this to light

It seems fine. Not all satanists are horrible people. The issue here is that that is a gang. Gangs are like that we've had them here and I've been attacked by people like that before. Religious beliefs are just a guise they use to excuse their behavior.

As for the item being based off that... I don't see it. We have many horns, and I don't see every item there being mentioned in the story.

sorry to hear that, the wandering poet

You're connecting things that aren't connected.

Originally Posted by Nephila

You're connecting things that aren't connected.

Of course not. What on earth could a demonic herder be herding? Unicorns and rainbows? Do you think street gangs organize bake sales? Demons and street gangs are about death and death only.

If one is or acts as a "Demonic herder", then who or what is being herded and for what purpose? Animals are herded. Why do we herd animals? To keep them close for easy access when the times comes to eat them.

What is a demonic herder herding?

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https://youtu.be/ogSa9xNKrpg

Watch if you dare. You become enlightened after being horrified.

So you're offended by an item because of the name. Well... don't buy it then.

Regarding what it herds. A sheep herder herds sheep, a cow herder herds cows. A demonic herder would herd demons. The things it would keep at close access to consume and eat would be demons, not humans.

This thing you linked has several flaws. It claims that the crime ring mentioned is a conspiracy. No. It's currently a target, and they are trying to shut it down to this date. I know men who have been caught and they go to jail. The operation can't just arrest everyone you think it wrong because god said so. There must be evidence.

I love the demonic herder CI. My personal opinion. And no, I'm not a satanist.

Originally Posted by The Wandering Poet

So you're offended by an item because of the name. Well... don't buy it then.

Regarding what it herds. A sheep herder herds sheep, a cow herder herds cows. A demonic herder would herd demons. The things it would keep at close access to consume and eat would be demons, not humans.

This thing you linked has several flaws. It claims that the crime ring mentioned is a conspiracy. No. It's currently a target, and they are trying to shut it down to this date. I know men who have been caught and they go to jail. The operation can't just arrest everyone you think it wrong because god said so. There must be evidence.

How many demons could a demon herder herd if demonic demon herding is not absurd?

three point five

Originally Posted by The Wandering Poet

three point five

Well, unlike NASA, at least you didn't lose the telemetry data from going to the moon.

The reasoning for that is actually rather hilarious...

Originally Posted by The Wandering Poet

The reasoning for that is actually rather hilarious...

At last! We two agree upon something.

It was a money saving decision to reuse the tapes. So they HAVE the tape. It just has something else on it now.
We lost it because of poor funding.

WASHINGTON — A long-overdue fiscal year 2017 spending bill unveiled early May 1 will provide NASA with $19.65 billion, more than $600 million above the original request for the agency by the previous administration.

This from Space.com

I do believe NASA can, in fact, afford to buy more tape. Was not man's greatest achievement going to the moon? It's absolutely insane to me that NASA cannot keep record of such a monumental event. That is, unless NASA is lying about having been to the moon. Then it makes perfect sense.

NASA has not always made tons of money. The amount they make fluctuates.

You'd think... but never underestimate an underpaid intern.

Originally Posted by The Wandering Poet

NASA has not always made tons of money. The amount they make fluctuates.

You'd think... but never underestimate an underpaid intern.

NASA does not generate revenue nor is the space agency intended to.

Below is a copied excerpt from Wiki about the moon flags. There is something I found odd about the measurements. Can you tell what it is?

The Lunar Flag Assembly (LFA) was a kit containing a flag of the United States designed to be planted by astronauts on theMoon during the Apollo program. Six such flag assemblies were planted on the Moon. The nylon flags were hung on telescoping staffs and horizontal bars constructed of one-inch anodized aluminum tubes. The flags were carried on the outside of the Apollo Lunar Module, most of them on the descent ladder inside a thermally insulated tubular case to protect them from exhaust gas temperatures calculated to reach 2,000 °F (1,090 °C). The assembly was designed and supervised by Jack Kinzler, head of technical services at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas. Six of the flags were ordered from a government supply catalog and measured 3 by 5 feet (0.91 by 1.52 m); the last one planted on the Moon was the slightly larger, 6-foot (1.8 m)-wide flag which had hung in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Manned Spacecraft Center for most of the Apollo program.

Nope, I don't see anything wrong with that.