Children are paying emotional price for Juárez violence
Crime • September 2010 • Views: 469
JUAREZ — The image was disturbing — a young girl stretching her body through iron bars to catch a glimpse of several people who had just been gunned down.
Their bodies collapsed on the sidewalk near her home after gunmen opened fire on them in apparent retaliation for the kidnapping of another child.
For children such as the girl trying to see the victims, the brutality of the drug war in Juárez is causing psychological and emotional problems.
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