There are hitmen that are too young

Hitmen children in today's world

The origin of hit-man children occurs due to the demand that comes from the organized crime. According to security analysts, they attribute it to the termination of the implicit arrangement that exists mainly between drug traffickers and local government. This is basically how child hitmen usually originate within our society.

Drug trafficking has become part of our daily lives, much is known about the cartels and the enormous fortunes they have in their possession. However, very little is known about the children who are involved in this, “child hitmen or child soldiers” of drug trafficking. Sad but true, the smallest men of our society are already involved in this mafia.

The incursion of minors and becoming professional hitmen and killers has occurred throughout history. First, they served as spies, then they were used as snitches and now known as unimpeachable forces.

These children are recruited by gangs dedicated to drug dealing and to kidnap and kill. Those gangs chose children to assist them in doing that kind of work for the simple reason that the law does not punish them like an adult.

It is easy to attract these children to these kinds of activities since they are lacking family care. Most of them do not even have the financial resources to continue their education. Those children sometimes find refuge or consolation by carrying out this sinister act.

A hitman child is paid much less

Although a minor is paid much less than an adult, the fact of obtaining protection and access to a status can be very attractive. On the other hand, it may be due to inheritance that he or she belongs to a group that is dedicated to this kind of illegal businesses.

There is a pattern in the recruitment and evolution of child hitmen. Their age range from 9 to 10 years old and more than 30,000 minors have been recruited and/or prepared to kill. Usually, the first tasks they perform being that of informants for their mafia boss.

At the age of 12 it is when they already have some years of experience. That is when they begin to be used as guards in the safe houses where they guard the kidnapped victims. That is another type of crime to which they are linked.

At the age of 16 they are already recruited as hitmen or skilled killers. In some cases, their beginnings as murderers began much earlier. Even if these children are proven to have participated in criminal gangs, they will be accused of homicides but will only be tried as adolescents. This implies a minimal sentence in a rehabilitation and psychological care center.

Reasons why they are involved in killings

It is important that we realize that there are many children who lack economic resources, education, etc. This means that they are more prone to fall into the hands of criminals who are in need to hire a hitman. These children fall into the hands of crime because in their childhood. Many were not taught of the consequences that their decisions could cause if convicted after committing a crime.

It is an issue of great concern, since children should not be doing these kinds of things. They should live in an environment of peace, harmony, love with their parent. They should be able to pursue their academic education, among many other things.

It is sad to see those children being involved in criminal activities since they are the future of our society. They should not get involved with criminal gangs and they should live their lives like other children do. That it is not an issue that no parent should be happy about. We should rather worry about seeing what could really be done so that our children stay far from those criminals in the future.

Initial considerations

Thus, this is unique in a characterization that defines a young hit man from a regular grown contract killer. Usually they come from fragmented homes. Likewise, they never reach the condition of being formally a nucleated family. In addition, they come from household in which the mother is usually the head of the family with several children to maintain and raise in an environment of serious shortcomings.

They are young deserters of the educational system in which their permanence has been very low. That said, their relationship to economic activities begins in informality moved by the need to support the expenses of their mother and brothers.

Its main formation is received from socialization models. Those models are exemplary with their peers that are already linked to the occupation and that gain some fearful respect in the communities where they live.

What studies have shown us

Studies in different parts of the world confirm the decisive influence of the media in the generations of crime. More than 70% of the TV content has violent programs. In addition, some films and video games, are also coupled with violence in our streets.

It is normal now to see how how they kill human beings and by morbid young people see the bloodiest images. Also in some popular neighborhoods, the most respected is the most violent gang member. They teach children from a young age that one must belong to the town gang in order to be respected by other gangs.

We are surrounded by violence

How do we ask our youth to be peaceful if we are programming them for violence? The press published an article recently in which they confirmed that school dropouts, poverty and unemployment are factors that push children to become hitmen.

In this sense, what are the factors that predispose a person to crime? Criminal behavior is presented today, but it started a long time ago. The murderer does not begin his criminal career simply by killing. Except for rare exceptions, the "contagion" of violence is acquired from their own home. From a young age, they see that the problems between their parents are fixed to blow. Unfortunately, they experience violence against the mother and brothers.