Boughtthefarm
10:04 am on November 2nd, 2009
OMG what is this world coming to. All these children/teens comitting murder and other heinous acts. We just think our prisons are over populated now…just wait!
Lavonna
3:59 pm on November 2nd, 2009
RIP Alex
Morbid
5:04 pm on November 2nd, 2009
OMG what is this world coming to. All these children/teens comitting murder and other heinous acts. We just think our prisons are over populated now…just wait!
This is nothing new so I wouldn’t worry about some kind of growing trend. Kids have been killing kids for a long, long time.
MadeaBecBec
10:52 pm on November 2nd, 2009
Oh good Lord have mercy…..
The 4-year-old Mendota boy who disappeared Friday was drowned and placed in a neighbor’s dryer before a search for the child had even begun, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said today.
Sheriff Margaret Mims said Alex Christopher Mercado was playing outside his Tuft Street home Friday when a 14-year-old neighbor boy brought him into the neighbor’s home and killed him. The teenager placed the child in the dryer, which was screened by a door, Mims said. The teenager, whose name has not been released, has been arrested in connection with the child’s death.
No rehab here, just drown him and be done with it….
Source
lovelybones
11:17 pm on November 2nd, 2009
No rehab here, just drown him and be done with it….
WORD.
Jaded
11:31 pm on November 2nd, 2009
Thanks for the update, MadeaBecBec.
April
11:39 pm on November 2nd, 2009
http://www.kmjnow.com/pages/landing_news?Sheriff-Says-Slain-Mendota-Boy-Was-Drown=1&blockID=86194&feedID=806
Fresno County sheriff Margaret Mims revealed late Monday afternoon that the 4-year-old Mendota boy who was found inside a dryer in a neighbor’s home on Saturday had been drowned.
captainhowdy
12:10 am on November 3rd, 2009
Fucking heartbreaking. The picture of him in the video is so sweet. Poor little guy.
CassieMomma
9:49 am on November 3rd, 2009
What posseses a 14 year old to kill. You all know my opinion if you are there already I have to imagine there can be no hope for his future. So sad…a 4 year old. Why???!!!???
Dakota Valkyrie
8:12 am on November 4th, 2009
Prosecutors will charge a 14-year-old boy as an adult in Fresno County Superior Court in the slaying of 4-year-old Alex Christopher Mercado of Mendota.
But Raul Renato Castro’s mother said justice won’t be served by prosecuting him as an adult.
“I’ll never understand why he did it,” Elsa Castro said in a telephone interview Tuesday evening. “He’s a good boy who has never been in trouble.”
[...]
Raul Castro faces charges of first-degree murder and four special allegations associated with that charge — that it was committed along with child molestation, sodomy, kidnapping and in order to silence a witness. Castro also faces separate felony charges of kidnapping, sodomy and child molestation.
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Full Article
MadeaBecBec
2:33 pm on November 4th, 2009
Child molestation and Sodomy, that’s why Raul Renato Castro killed Alex, so he wouldn’t be able to tell what happened. Elsa, did you not hear the charges?
My heart breaks for Alex and his family! Tortured and then Murdered, unbelievable!
Jaded
3:40 am on November 5th, 2009
More details emerging…
Castro told investigators he lured the victim, Alex Christopher Mercato, into his apartment “by telling the victim he had something to show him.”
Police have said no one else was in the Mendota, California, house at the time.
Castro then talked the boy into entering the bathroom, according to the document. Castro said he then sodomized the toddler, after which “the victim tripped over the carpet, fell, and hit the back of his head on the bathtub,” the affidavit says.
“Castro said the victim started crying and told Castro he was going to tell his mother. Castro said he panicked and decided to kill the victim by drowning him in the bathtub.
“Castro turned on the water to the bathtub and filled it up just enough to put the victim’s face underwater and drowned him. Castro said he held the victim underwater 2-4 minutes. Castro got into the bathtub with the victim, held him down until the victim died.”
“Castro then carried the victim over his left shoulder and put him [in]… the clothes dryer to conceal him.”
Link
Jeebus…
captainhowdy
12:31 am on November 6th, 2009
Just read the updated info in this case. Fucking HORRIFYING. Poor, poor baby Alex.
What a total psychopathic piece of shit that 14 year old is. Just lock him up and throw away the key, he is clearly defective beyond any hope of repair.

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