I just saw this on Yahoo.com in the news forum. A 9 yr old boy was decapitated & 2 10 yr old girls were partially decapitated. The mother of the kids doesn't speak english that well so a neighbor made the call to the police for her. This is so sad to hear. It didn't say what race these kids were but i'm guessing they were foreigners. This happened when they came home from elementary school. The neighborhood is safe that they lived in from what the reports show. What is wrong with the world today? Innocent kids being killed. This is so so sad when children aren't even safe anymore in their neighborhoods.

Yea, I live in MD, and it's been talked about everywhere.

So sad..:(

2 Men Nabbed in Deaths of 3 Md. Children

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By FOSTER KLUG, Associated Press Writer

BALTIMORE - Two young relatives were arrested in the deaths of three children found slain, one of them decapitated, in a Baltimore apartment, police said Friday.


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At a news conference, police identified the suspects as Adan Espinosa Canela, 17, and Policarpio Espinosa, 22. They are cousins and are related to the victims although it was not immediately clear in what way.


The children were identified as 9-year-old Ricardo Espinoza; his 9-year-old sister, Lucero Quezada; and their 10-year-old cousin, Alexis Quezada, a boy. One child was beheaded, the other two partially beheaded.


"I've been around for 35 years and I've seen, unfortunately, my share of murders, but I've never seen something as bad as this," Deputy Police Commissioner Kenneth Blackwell said earlier.


Homicide detectives had stopped an unidentified "person of interest" in connection with the crime late Thursday.


The children were found when one of their mothers returned home from work Thursday. The woman, who speaks Spanish but little English, told a neighbor, who called 911.


"There's blood all over my apartment," a woman said in the 911 call, apparently providing translation for the mother. "They've killed my family!"


The first officer on the scene "couldn't handle it" and had to give the call to another officer, Blackwell said. "Walking in on a scene, seeing children of that tender age in that condition, certainly breaks your heart."


Police found a butcher knife they believe was used in the killings near the apartment where the victims were discovered.


Parents and teachers at the children's school, Cross Country Elementary, hugged each other Friday morning and cried. Officials said grief counselors would be on hand to help the 700 students.


The mother gave police information about where to find the man who was questioned, Blackwell said. Officers stopped him a few blocks from the crime scene.


Blackwell said the man's relationship to the children, if any, was not known but he was an acquaintance of the mother.


The art deco apartment complex is on the edge of a neighborhood of well-tended homes. It is largely Orthodox Jewish, with a mix of white, black and Hispanic residents.


Al Johnson, who lives in the complex, said she heard the mother screaming.


"They were very nice, cordial kids," Johnson said. "It's such a shock to everyone. "It's a very quiet, peaceful community."

So sad :(

Oh my God, I can't even comment. I'm sickened.

Three Children Slain, One of Them Beheaded

ASSOCIATED PRESS (http://www.ap.org/)

Friday May 28 2004

BALTIMORE, MD - Two young relatives were arrested in the deaths of three children found slain, one of them decapitated, in a Baltimore apartment, police said Friday.

At a news conference, police identified the suspects as Adan Espinosa Canela, 17, and Policarpio Espinosa, 22. They are cousins and are related to the victims although it was not immediately clear in what way.

The children were identified as 9-year-old Ricardo Espinoza; his 9-year-old sister, Lucero Quezada; and their 10-year-old cousin, Alexis Quezada, a boy. One child was beheaded, the other two partially beheaded.

“I’ve been around for 35 years and I’ve seen, unfortunately, my share of murders, but I’ve never seen something as bad as this,” Deputy Police Commissioner Kenneth Blackwell said earlier.

911 call: 'They've killed my family'
The children were found when one of their mothers returned home from work Thursday. The woman, who speaks Spanish but little English, told a neighbor, who called 911.

“There’s blood all over my apartment,” a woman said in the 911 call. “They’ve killed my family!”

The first officer on the scene “couldn’t handle it” and had to give the call to another officer, Blackwell said. “Walking in on a scene, seeing children of that tender age in that condition, certainly breaks your heart.”

Parents and teachers at the children’s school, Cross Country Elementary, hugged each other Friday morning and cried. Officials said grief counselors would be on hand to help the 700 students.

'Peaceful community'
Al Johnson, who lives in the apartment complex, said she heard the mother screaming.

“They were very nice, cordial kids,” Johnson said. “It’s such a shock to everyone. “It’s a very quiet, peaceful community.”

The art deco apartment complex is on the edge of a neighborhood of well-tended homes. It is largely Orthodox Jewish, with a mix of white, black and Hispanic residents.

Matt Teichman, 17, a student at Talmudical Academy, was returning home from prayers when he heard the sirens and saw police.

“We walk here late at night and we usually feel safe,” he said. “Now, I don’t know what to feel. I can’t really believe it.”

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Relatives of the three children slain grieve Thursday outside
the Baltimore apartment complex where the children lived.

Ugh...how awful. That's disgusting. :(

I first read about the story on this thread. It's absolutely horrifying.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?s=&threadid=110606

Yes it is. I just don't understand how someone could do that to anyone, especially poor innocent children. :crying: ohno:

I know it will never happen but I hope that they behead the sicko scum bag that did this evil thing!It makes me sick!:eek:

Those :cuss: !!!How could someone possibly kill a child...let alone three...let alone decapitate them? Of all the ways to die,...i think I would have rather been shot or stabbed....anything but that...and partically decapitated......those poor children probally felt a lot more pain than the other one. I also hope they find the killers and have them rot in prison, so they can think about wut they did...they probally wont cuz ppl like this dont have a heart and wut they did wouldnt get to them but if they are behind bars they wont be able to do it again. Its so hard to even fanthom how someone could do this to children. :crying:

Omg thats just sick. ohno: :rolleyes: :rolleyes2

That is sick. I hope those %$#@$%^%$ are beheaded themselves.

And not that our own citizens don't do enough of this ****, but apparently we need to let less worthless immigrants sneak across the borders and kick more out. Like I said, we have enough worthless **** that were born here.

this is terrible - so shocking and unbelievable sad for the family of these children :(

OMG!!!!! That is just sick! I don't understand. People can just be sooooo HORRIBLE! Poor kids :(

How can you be so sick to kill three innocent children? That's just horrible. I feel for the family of the kids, they should not have had to go through this. I hope the bastards who did this get the justice they deserve. It's a sad in America, the free land, when kids are killed in their own neighborhoods because of their cultural difference. :(

This makes me sick to my stomach, and I find it all deeply saddening. :( Worthless, sick son of a bitch.... :mad:

Two Arrested in Slaying of Three Maryland Children
By FOSTER KLUG, AP

BALTIMORE (May 29) -- Two young men were arrested on murder charges Friday in the gruesome slayings of three younger relatives in an apartment. One was beheaded with a butcher knife, the others were nearly decapitated, police said.

Police said the two men are cousins, but the Mexican government identified Policarpio Espinoza, 22, as the children's uncle and Adan Espinoza Canela, 17, as their cousin.

Investigators said they did not know the motive for the killings, and they did not disclose how they connected the suspects to the crime.

The children were identified by the principal at their school as 9-year-old Ricardo Espinoza; his 9-year-old sister, Lucero Quezada; and their 10-year-old cousin Alexis Quezada, a boy.

The bodies were found in two bedrooms of the first-floor apartment. Police found a butcher knife near the apartment and said they believe it was used in the killings.

The suspects were ''emotionless'' as they talked with detectives, Deputy Police Commissioner Kenneth Blackwell said.

The children had returned home as usual Thursday from Cross Country Elementary School and were found dead less than two hours later by a woman who was the mother of at least one of the victims. Neighbors heard screams from the woman, who speaks Spanish but little English, and called 911 for her.

''There's blood all over my apartment,'' a woman said in the 911 call, apparently translating for the mother. ''They've killed my family!''

The children were likely home alone at the time of the attack, said Antonio Williams, the police department's chief of detectives.

Parents and teachers at Cross Country hugged each other Friday morning and cried. Grief counselors were on hand for the 700 students.

Principal Matthew Riley described the slain children as ''wonderful young people, lovely children, delightful to work with.''

A relative said the family was originally from Mexico and moved from New York to Baltimore about three years ago. The relative said the family owns a food business.

The Mexican government's Foreign Relations Department said the children's parents - Ricardo Espinoza, Mimi Quezada and Maria Andrea Espejo - were undocumented immigrants. It wasn't known who the parents were of each child. The children were born in Mexico.

The slayings took place at the Samester Parkway Apartments in the Fallstaff neighborhood in the northwest corner of the city. The complex is not far from Pimlico Race Course, where the Preakness was held two weeks ago.

The apartment complex is surrounded by well-tended homes and green lawns. The Art Deco structure was added in 1998 to the National Register of Historic Places. The neighborhood is largely Orthodox Jewish, with a mix of white, black and Hispanic residents.

''They were very nice, cordial kids,'' said Al Johnson, who lives in the complex. ''It's such a shock to everyone. ''It's a very quiet, peaceful community.''

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Suspects Policarpio Espinoza, left, and Adan Espinoza Canela, in Baltimore Police booking photos.

This is so awful. Poor kids.

And the beheading thing makes me think of Nick Berg. I haven't been able to get that out of my mind ever since the story broke. It made me sick to my stomach (much like this story does).

Glad they caught some suspects, though.

Those two child killers look so evil. It's hard to look at their pictures. What is in their heads to make them do something like this???

Originally posted by webwarrior762004
Someone who cuts off childrens heads for no reason ought to
have his or her head cut off! However, the law says citizens
cannot do that sort of thing. I just hope the state of Maryland
gives these men the death penalty.

Yea, I'm not sure about how big we are on the death penalty *shrugs*

this really sickens me, it pisses me off to no extream. the fact that someone would kill a child.

what is the world comming to? :( :crying: