08/08/2008
Two Mexican Teens Arrested in Grisly Gay Sex Killing in Cancun
A gay couple in Cancun, Mexico were slaughtered in a brutal killing by four teens in a robbery that turned deadly, according to Mexican news media.
On Top magazine reports: "Ricardo Humberto Santos and Cesar Castillo were the victims of an apparent homophobic attack in their home last Saturday. The teens, ages 14 and 15, planned on injuring then robbing the couple of a car and a plasma screen television, but killed them instead. The teens then took off with several worthless electronic devices, including a DVD player. Police say the minors lived only 3 houses away and had been inside the house previously. Two other teenagers, both 16, are wanted by the police as suspected accomplices...According to the police, the men were killed while engaged in sex with the teens. Results of an autopsy showed that Santos was stabbed 38 times and Castillo 34. The boys confessed to police the gory details of slicing one of the pair's throat while having oral sex."
The teens are thought to belong to a neighborhood gang and scrawled anti-gay messages on the side of the home which led to their arrest.
Posted 10:53 AM EST by Andy Towle in Crime, Mexico, News | Permalink
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The news story offers little more than hints -- the lurid conclusions that we are all (including me) jumping to say a lot about the state of gay culture.
If those conclusions are in fact correct, then there are few things lower than someone from an affluent country who travels to an impoverished one to use its poverty as leverage in securing sex with kids.
However, one of the very few things lower than that person -- is a murderer.
Posted by: thin mint | Aug 8, 2008 3:00:23 PM
Thin Mint,
What was that about leaping to lurid conclusions?
I don't think the victims traveled very far. They were murdered in their Cancun home.
Posted by: 24play | Aug 8, 2008 3:06:31 PM
Oh, you're quite right -- I saw "Cancun" and thought "tourists."
Posted by: thin mint | Aug 8, 2008 3:13:57 PM
I was molested by a much older man when I was 14 and didn't know how to get out of the situation. But having your dick sucked is never a justifiable reason to kill someone, whether you're gay or straight. These kids lived three houses down and wanted some cool electronics, and were willing to kill for it. That's it. They deserve zero sympathy.
If the victims had been (anally) raping them, I might have some sympathy. But given these details, I do not.
Posted by: Anon | Aug 8, 2008 10:22:30 PM
Why do so many here seem to be taking the murderers` explanation at face value...
The first thing I thought when I read the kart about them having sex was that this may have been trumped up by either corrupt police or by the murderers (possibly on the advice of someone who knows a jury will say, ``Oh well, they must have deserved it, so let`s go light on the sentencing.``
We can`t hear one side of the story because they are DEAD. The side we are hearing is from a group whose moral compass is such that it allows for not only theft but also slicing other human beings` throats.
It astounds me that anyone would jump to the conclusion that we`re hearing the real story when you look at who is telling it.
Posted by: GV | Aug 8, 2008 11:10:06 PM
Great point, GV. And anyway, who gives a fuck if they did have sex with consenting teenagers. Americans are so fucking uptight about underage sex. You're a bunch of fucking Puritans . . . except that Puritans weren't nearly so hung up on age. Even they thought underage sex was fine (in marriage). Morally, it is so fucking screwed up to think that sex with a consenting teenager is worthy of inflicting torture and death on an adult.
Posted by: White Collar Boy | Aug 9, 2008 12:10:53 AM
I learned the hard way, only date guys who are AT LEAST in their forties, the younger they are, the rougher the ride.
Posted by: Ty | Aug 10, 2008 1:14:39 AM