They raped, murdered and burned a 9-year-old boy to take revenge on the mother

A crime against a nine-year-old is shocking Dominican Republic. At the small they raped her in her bed and after having murdered him with stab wounds, they burned his body.

The police arrived at the house where the incident occurred after being alerted of a possible fire, the area being very smoky. When the agents entered the scene, they found the unexpected scene: the body of the boy on fire. I was in a pool of blood and with a rag in his mouth.

The first tests determined that after stab seven times For Leonardo Montero, the criminals set the body on fire.

Police arrested three suspects. According to preliminary information, the authorities believe that the incident that occurred in the capital of this country was a revenge against the mother.

The woman had received several calls to intimidate her after a fight with the sister of one of the detainees, reported Telemundo.

Figures that hurt

According to figures from the Citizen Security Observatory, 567 killings of minors were counted in the Dominican Republic in 2014 in the first half of 2017.

The figures indicate that there is an average of 141 juvenile killings a year in the Caribbean country. Of these crimes, 81% are adolescents aged 15 to 19 years.